If you’re not a biologist, the Mount Lyell shrew looks similar to other shrews that occupy the Sierra Nevada. It’s a small, grayish brown mammal with a pointy nose. Aside from its size, it’s not ...

The pitfall trapping phase was essential to capture shrews that remain invisible to standard tools. A mammal that weighs about as much as a sugar cube sounds like a myth, right? Well, it might’ve been ...

For more than 100 years, scientists have known about a shrew living in the mountains around Yosemite National Park. California designated it a "species of special concern," but nobody had seen it. For ...