The range of this abundant and widespread species includes the southern half of eastern Canada, and the eastern half of the U.S. Mixed and deciduous hardwood forest with thick, damp leaf mold harbor ...

Once every spring, a few days after the full moon, corals of the great barrier reef release eggs and sperm simultaneously—a ...

Although Eurasian shrews exhibit variations of this behavior, the masked shrew may be the only North American species to engage in it. Young born in the spring often breed later in the same year. The ...

The last scientific record of the "lost species" of elephant shrew was in the 1970s, despite local sightings. The creature was found alive and well in Djibouti, a country in the Horn of Africa ...

There are nearly 400 different shrew species, and most of them are as harmless as the common mouse they most closely resemble ...

In 1988 an effort was mounted to save this tiny mammal when the Interfaith Council for the Protection of Animals and Nature petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the shrew as an ...

To distill the secret behind this metabolic mastery, study co-author and zoologist Dorothée Huchon led a hunt for genetic ...

From the formation of inner ear bones to the rise of hair to cover our bodies, these developments made us distinct from other ...

The extremely rare Indian purple frog doesn’t really look like a frog. It’s also a living fossil that’s been around since ...

Shrews are small, mole-like mammals that are sometimes mistaken for mice. But unlike most other mammals, some shrew species are venomous. One of these is the American short-tailed shrew (Blarina ...

The chromosome complement (karyotype) often differs between related mammalian species (including humans vs chimpanzees), such that evolutionary biologists muse whether chromosomal difference is a ...

The moisture and vegetative cover in such habitats support abundant and diverse populations of shrew prey species. RANGE: The Buena Vista Lake ornate shrew is endemic to the southern Tulare Basin in ...