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 ...

This grey-black to blackish-brown shrew with a pointed, down-drooping nose averages 147-157 mm (5.8-6.2 in) in length, and is the longest of the Adirondack shrews. It weighs 10-17 g (0.35-0.60 oz), ...

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 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 ...

This Mount Lyell shrew is ready for his close-up – finally. Well over a century since its discovery, this tiny ...

The pointy-nosed shrew spends their days nibbling on insects hiding under logs in the Sierra Nevada, a mountain range in California. At least, scientists think they ‘probably’ do.

A long-nosed shrew mouse discovered in Northern Mindanao by the late Filipino zoologist and biologist Danny Balete was found to be a whole new genus rather than just a new species cascaded from a ...

While some people call the Pygmy Shrew a ‘grass mouse’, and while it does indeed look like a small, long-nosed mouse, it is not a mouse. It is not even related to mice or other rodents. Shrews ...

It was finally ready for its close-up. The rare Mount Lyell shrew was recently photographed for the first time by a group of college students. The pointy-nosed, beady-eyed, greyish-brown creature ...