DONNELLY FLATS — I have a shrew in my house. Actually it's in my shop. One of my buddies was incredulous. "You actually let your wife in your shop?" Yeah, I do, but the shrew I'm speaking of is ...

It has the body of a mouse, the snout of an anteater, and the poor vision of a mole, and it’s creating tunnels and holes in your lawn. I’m talking, of course, about the shrew. This tiny mammal doesn’t ...

The shrew—the animal namesake of bad-tempered women—is the smallest but fiercest and most voraciously carnivorous of all mammals. The brown, beady-eyed, two-to four-inch creature looks like a ...

According to new research, shrews change their size in accordance with the season. The tiny gray mammals can lose 20 percent of their body size in the cold winter months, possibly to conserve energy.

Scientists have observed reductions not just in overall body mass, but also in the size of the shrews’ livers, spleens, skulls, and brains. 2,3 Researchers hypothesize that reducing the mass of ...

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The distribution of house shrews in the coastal areas from Asia to East Africa suggests a wider trade network in the middle-modern ages. House shrews (Suncus murinus) are small mouse-like mammals ...

Intraspecific Phylogeny of the House Shrews, Suncus murinus-S. montanus Species Complex, Based on the Mitochondrial Cytochrome b Gene. Mammal Study , 2016; 41 (4): 229 DOI: 10.3106/041.041.0408 ...