Momentarily pausing after eating some mealworms, an elusive shrew’s long snout pointed skywards, unaware of the historic ...

The tiny Mount Lyell shrew has been photographed alive for the first time, according to the California Academy of Sciences.

Some winter activity takes place on or in the soil, under the insulating snow cover. Short-tailed shrews push their way through the leaf mold by day or move about on top of the ground at night during ...

Rare California Rodent Caught On Film For First Time. The rare and elusive Mount Lyell shrew has been photographed for the ...

The team set more than 100 pitfall traps, designed for shrews to fall into as they walked across the ground, and constantly monitored the traps for three consecutive days, only sleeping for two ...

Vishal Subramanyan and Prakrit Jain had never even heard of the rare shrew they would soon spend months chasing. The students were both in the same mammalogy class at the University of California, ...

According to the University of California, Berkeley, the Mount Lyell shrew was the only California mammal known to science that hadn’t been caught on camera. That changed when three young ...

“The Framing of the Shrew” began the headline of a recent article in The Guardian by Katharine Gammon. It told of the ...

(CNN) — Momentarily pausing after eating some mealworms, an elusive shrew’s long snout pointed skywards, unaware of the historic portrait that had just been captured. Not a single Mount Lyell ...