SAN FRANCISCO (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - Photographers made history by capturing an adorable little critter on camera for the first time ever. The elusive creature is called the Mount Lyell Shrew, and ...

But shrews from some parts of the globe can be tough to come by, ... Finding living individuals in the wild will provide insights into everything from what they eat to how many pups they have.

To take photos of the Mount Lyell shrew, three students laid out over 100 traps last November in the Eastern Sierra Nevada region and checked them every two hours.