Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A palm-sized mammal that lives underground in California has been caught alive on camera for the first time. Three undergraduate ...

A macro closeup shot of the smallest mammal in the world known as the Etruscan shrew sitting on a rock© Wirestock Creators/Shutterstock.com A mammal that weighs about as much as a sugar cube sounds ...

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One of Virginia's most common mammals is the northern short-tailed shrew. You've probably never heard of this animal, and you may never have seen one. Like many small mammals, shrews spend much of ...

There is a small mammal living in a field near you that you may have caught sight of a few times but paid little attention to ...

Some mammals hibernate to survive in winter, but the Eurasian common shrew (Sorex araneus) employs Dehnel's phenomenon to get through it. This is a metabolic process that enables shrews to conserve ...

A palm-sized mammal that lives underground in California has been caught alive on camera for the first time. Three undergraduate students came up with an idea to capture the elusive Mount Lyell shrew, ...