To curb the spread of Lyme disease in the northeastern United States, scientists and public health experts for decades have ...

On March 4th Colossal Biosciences, a company trying to revive long-gone species, announced that they had genetically ...

All predators of small mammals take deer mice. Some of these are hawks, owls, snakes, short-tailed shrews, foxes, minks, weasels, bobcats and coyotes. Choate, J. R. 1973. Identification and recent ...

A shrew is a tiny rodent that looks like a long mouse with a pointy snout with buck teeth. Camp Hill virus is a type of henipavirus, a broad group of viruses that typically infect bats but ...

Etruscan shrews are 20 times lighter than the average adult mouse. They have a body length of about 4 cm excluding the tail ...

The neurotoxic saliva of the short-tailed shrew is a unique adaptation among North American mammals. Its poisonous bite is a result of secretions of the submaxillary glands which contain enough toxin ...