The smallest mammals on Earth prove that survival, agility, and a voracious appetite have nothing to do with scale.

Australia declares extinction of the Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura), the country's last native shrew species.

Learn about the extinction crisis facing Australia and the plight of extinct endangered animals, including the Christmas ...

Hero shrews may be small mammals that look like rodents, but they're strong, mighty and live up to their name on the inside. Their interlocking spine is unlike anything researchers have ever seen in ...

The world’s most comprehensive global inventory on extinction risk has declared the Christmas Island shrew extinct ...

“The extinction of the slender-billed curlew is a tragic and sobering moment for migratory bird conservation," said Amy Fraenkel, executive secretary of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory ...

Diversity and Distributions, Vol. 30, No. 3 (March 2024), pp. 1-15 (15 pages) Aim: Mountains are geographic features that provide sharp elevational gradients which can accommodate a diversity of ...

It's official: the only Australian shrew is no more. The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of ...

If you know where to find a good shrew, then Aldine resident William Keith really wants to hear from you. "If anybody knows what a shrew is, and if you have shrews on your property, please call me," ...