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

It’s not as bendy as a trunk, but it still does the job well. The elephant shrew also relies on its sharp eyesight and hearing, with its nose giving it an extra edge while hunting.

7. Etruscan Shrew (image credits: unsplash) Holding the unofficial title of the world’s smallest mammal by weight, the Etruscan shrew is a true featherweight. Adults tip the scales at just 1.8 grams ...

13 Platypus (image credits: unsplash) Few creatures are as odd as the platypus. With a duck-like bill, webbed feet, and a beaver-like tail, it’s no wonder early European naturalists thought it was a ...

Here I describe a mechanism for underwater sniffing used by the semi-aquatic star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata) and water shrew (Sorex palustris).

Here are eight tiny tyne creatures known as the smallest mammals of the earth. At only 1.3g, the extinct B. vanhouteni is believed to be the smallest mammal that ever lived. This tiny, shrew-like ...

Eight tiny but mighty mammals on Earth that are as cute as a button From the Etruscan shrew, the world’s smallest known mammal by weight, to the Pygmy marmoset, a primate small enough to fit in ...

The Etruscan shrew is the smallest mammal in the world by mass. On average, it weighs less than .14 ounces and has a body length of about 1.57 inches.

Shrew Mole: This tiny mole, found in Vietnam, weighs just 8 grams. One of the smallest terrestrial mammals on Earth, this strange creature has shrew-like characteristics.

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 ...

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.