OCONOMOWOC - Children might not be the only ones frolicking on a popular all-inclusive Oconomowoc playground, and that has sent city officials on a mouse hunt. Or is it a shrew, the more outdoorsy ...

The Mt. Lyell shrew, a mouse-like mammal that lives in the central Sierra Nevada, has never been photographed in the 100 years since it was discovered. It took three industrious college students to ...

If you're a fan of elephants and tiny things (which, let's face it, everyone is), then you will be as excited by this as we are: scientists in California have discovered a new species of mammal called ...

“A spiteful, nagging, and ill-tempered person” is one definition of a shrew. Two species of shrews, of the animal nature, occur in our area and this name association hasn’t improved their images.

Among Adirondack mammals, pygmy shrews hold several records. Some adults weigh only 2-3 g (0.11 oz) and thus are the smallest mammals in the world. This species is also one of the rarest, with only ...

They might not get as much attention as the Amazon Rainforest or the Great Barrier Reef, but the mountains of the Philippines are one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. Inch for inch, these ...

The shrew—the animal namesake of bad-tempered women—is the smallest but fiercest and most voraciously carnivorous of all mammals. The brown, beady-eyed, two-to four-inch creature looks like a tiny, ...

Scientists working in the Horn of Africa have documented the existence of a remarkable little mammal called the Somali elephant shrew – or Somali sengi – for the first time since the 1970s. While ...

I worked as a naturalist at Lowry Nature Center in Carver Park Reserve for about 20 years, and we had a wildlife-feeding setup for the masses. We had about a dozen seed-and-suet feeders placed within ...

For more than 50 years, the mouse-size Somali sengi was thought to be a lost species. Turns out, it wasn't. Researchers recently spotted the Somali sengi, a kind of elephant shrew, not in Somalia — ...

The mountains of the Philippines are one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. Inch for inch, these misty cloud forests are home to more unique species of mammals per square mile than anywhere ...