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 ...

The geographic range for the rock shrew is a narrow band in the mountainous region of eastern North America from North Carolina into Maine, with an additional population occurring in southeastern New ...

Humans? Eh, jury's out. The shrew, with its ill temper and ability to swarm beyond its native South and Southeast Asia home to wreak havoc on other species, takes the cake. But researchers are ...