This makes the Mount Lyell shrew the only known Californian mammal never to be photographed, until now. To students Vishal ...

The Lyell shrew was the only mammal species in California which had never been filmed before. Vishal Subramanyan, Prakrit Jain, and Harper Forbes. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter.

If you’re not a biologist, the Mount Lyell shrew looks similar to other shrews that occupy the Sierra Nevada. It’s a small, grayish brown mammal with a pointy nose.

The Mount Lyell shrew, a tiny mammal that lives high in the Sierra Nevada mountains, was first described 100 years ago, but the elusive creature had never been photographed alive. So, in November ...

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 ...

The rare Mount Lyell shrew — a pointy-nosed, beady-eyed, greyish-brown creature that is native to the Sierra Nevada region — was recently photographed for the first time by a group of college ...

Southern shrews shrink in winter Date: April 15, 2025 Source: University of North Carolina at Greensboro Summary: Newly published research shows that the masked shrew, a small, mole-like mammal ...

This makes the Mount Lyell shrew the only known Californian mammal never to be photographed, until now. To students Vishal Subramanyan, Prakrit Jain, and Harper Forbes, this seemed like too good ...

Not a single Mount Lyell shrew had ever been photographed alive before, making them the only known mammal species in California to have eluded human cameras. That all changed in October.

The Lyell shrew was the only mammal species in California which had never been filmed before. In collaboration with University of California Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Jain ...