The pygmy shrew occurs throughout most of the boreal and northern temperate forests of North ... Moist forest floors with an accumulation of debris offer optimum habitat, their crumbling logs, trunks, ...

The masked shrew displays characters typical of all shrews. The slender, cylindrical body has a short, velvety, directionless fur. The long, tapered head ends in a flexible, tubular snout, with the ...

From the bumblebee bat to the Baluchistan pygmy jerboa, here are eight of the world's smallest mammals who thrive in a world ...

With a voracious appetite for insects, a long snout, and beady little eyes, the Buena Vista Lake ornate shrew is one intriguing mammal. Today, 95 percent of its former one-million-acre wetland and ...

The shrew is found only in the Eastern Sierra Nevada ... The species is even predicted to lose 89 percent of its habitat by the 2080s due to climate change.