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

For the past 65 million years, mammals have thrived across nearly every corner of Earth. In this time span, they have shaped ...

It consumed parts of the bodies of 20 masked shrews, one white-footed mouse, one red-backed vole, one pygmy shrew, plus 22 grasshoppers, 20 houseflies, 2 crane flies, one beetle, and the liver of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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