Water, as the common name suggests, is the necessary prerequisite for this shrew. Bogs, the edges of lakes and ponds, marshes, shrub swamps, rivers, and streams - even if only intermittent - provide ...

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 ...

Measuring only about 2- to 4-inches long, including their tail, the tiny shrews have reddish brown or grayish-brown fur, ...

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 ...

Elephant shrews, or sengis, are neither elephants nor ... Houssein Rayaleh The creature lives in a dry, rocky habitat The scientists had heard reports of sightings in Djibouti, and Houssein ...

told FOX43 that the least shrew's population took a steep decline after generations of flourishing within the state. "[They] were considered state-wide in the 1950s, and their habitat was abundant ...