“A spiteful, nagging, and ill-tempered person” is one definition of a shrew. Two species of shrews, of the animal nature, occur in our area and this name association hasn’t improved their images.

The hero shrew — a small, ratlike animal with a bizarrely strong and oddly shaped backbone — has mystified scientists since it was first described more than 100 years ago. Now, a newly discovered ...

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 ...

Scientists identified the curled-up creature as an Arctic ground squirrel that likely died while hibernating some 30,000 years ago The finding represents only the second recorded instance of a ...

Hero shrews may be small mammals that look like rodents, but they're strong, mighty and live up to their name on the inside. Their interlocking spine is unlike anything researchers have ever seen in ...

It has the body of a mouse, the snout of an anteater, and the poor vision of a mole, and it's creating tunnels and holes in your lawn. I'm talking, of course, about the shrew. This tiny mammal doesn't ...

The shrew—the animal namesake of bad-tempered women—is the smallest but fiercest and most voraciously carnivorous of all mammals. The brown, beady-eyed, two-to four-inch creature looks like a tiny, ...

The Mt. Lyell shrew, a mouse-like mammal that lives in the central Sierra Nevada, has never been photographed in the 100 years since it was discovered. It took three industrious college students to ...