Credit: California Academy of Sciences/Cover Images The rare and elusive Mount Lyell shrew has been photographed for the ...

Three college students found a way to take photos of the Mt. Lyell shrew, which has never been photographed in the 100 years ...

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All predators of small mammals take deer mice. Some of these are hawks, owls, snakes, short-tailed shrews, foxes, minks, weasels, bobcats and coyotes. Choate, J. R. 1973. Identification and recent ...

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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, ...

The neurotoxic saliva of the short-tailed shrew is a unique adaptation among North American mammals. Its poisonous bite is a result of secretions of the submaxillary glands which contain enough toxin ...

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

Rare California Rodent Caught On Film For First Time. The rare and elusive Mount Lyell shrew has been photographed for the first time in the 100 years since its discovery thanks to a group of ...