The masked shrew displays characters typical of all shrews. The slender, cylindrical body has a short, velvety, directionless fur. The long, tapered head ends in a flexible, tubular snout, with the ...

The short-tailed shrew differs from other Adirondack shrews in having a blunter snout, a shorter tail that is less than 25% of the total length, a heavier more cylindrical body, and fleshy feet. The ...

Having an average total length of just over three inches, the least shrew is easy to miss. This insectivore has been in ...

The last scientific record of the "lost species" of elephant shrew was in the 1970s, despite local sightings. The creature was found alive and well in Djibouti, a country in the Horn of Africa ...

An eight-gram “shrew mole” that’s one of the tiniest mammals on earth and a fanged furry hedgehog are among the more than 200 ...

With a voracious appetite for insects, a long snout, and beady little eyes, the Buena Vista Lake ornate shrew is one intriguing mammal. Today, 95 percent of its former one-million-acre wetland and ...

The Taming of the Shrew” is not generally considered one of Shakespeare’s finest plays. Over the years, its humor between the sexes has been dampened by audiences who have tired of its blatant ...