Some winter activity takes place on or in the soil, under the insulating snow cover. Short-tailed shrews push their way through the leaf mold by day or move about on top of the ground at night during ...

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 ...

An eight-gram “shrew mole” that’s one of the tiniest mammals on earth and a fanged furry ... said they show that the region ...

New research shows how the Eurasian common shrew (Sorex araneus) changes its brain and bodily size throughout the year. The study, published online in eLife, reveals how changes in gene expression ...