The strange-looking creatures are one of two known mammals that use a social structure like that of bees and ants. A ruling ...

Its pencil-point snout and musky odor give the Asian house shrew (Suncus murinus) away. Native to the Indian subcontinent, it has spread as far east as Japan and as far west as Africa. Like many pests ...

“A spiteful, nagging, and ill-tempered person” is one definition of a shrew. Two species of shrews, of the animal nature, occur in our area and this name association hasn’t improved their images.

A Japan-based research team has successfully bred the slender shrew in captivity, marking the first such achievement in the ...

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 tiny, ...