The masked shrew uses special abilities, such as reducing its body size, to stay warm and resilient during the cold winter.

The common shrew looks unremarkable, a few grams of fur and teeth scurrying under leaf litter. Yet this tiny mammal performs one of the strangest tricks in biology, shrinking its own brain and skull ...

Hailing from the mountains of Colombia, the new shrews fill in a geographical gap and are among a growing number of species discovered in collections Jack Tamisiea Research zoologist Neal Woodman ...

A mummified shrew found at Quesna suggests that ancient Egypt’s environment was once more wet than it is now. Abigail Eisenstadt Researchers study burial sites like the Falcon Necropolis at Quesna to ...