Beyond the well-known elephants and tigers, the world teems with tiny mammals playing crucial roles. From the Etruscan shrew, ...

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that chronic exposure to artificial light at night (LAN) can trigger depression-like behaviors by activating a specific ...

So, fall and winter temperatures predict Dehnel's phenomenon in these animals." "Phenotypic plasticity is a key way that shrews and many other species respond to changes in temperature," McLean notes.

The Pygmy Shrew has the distinction of being Ireland’s smallest mammal. It differs from mice in that it is tiny, has a long snout, a hairy rather than a naked tail, and red-tipped teeth.

This tiny mammal measures 4.72 inches long, including the tail, and weighs about .35 ounces. The American shrew mole doesn't even have external ears and has minuscule eyes that are almost invisible.

Northern tree shrews have one of the most unique parenting styles of any mammal. Their mothers nurse them only once every 48 hours, leaving the pups alone in their nest between feedings.

After more than twenty years without any sightings, the Mount Lyell shrew, a small and elusive mammal, has finally been captured in images by passionate students. This discovery marks a significant ...

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 ...

One of the shyest animals in the region is the Mount Lyell shrew. As Smithsonian reports, the tiny mammal was finally caught on camera for the first time since it was identified about 100 years ago.

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 ...

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. (Provided Photo/Vishal Subramanyan, Prakrit Jain, and Harper Forbes via CNN Newsource) ...