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 ...

The pygmy shrew occurs throughout most of the boreal and northern temperate forests of North ... Moist forest floors with an accumulation of debris offer optimum habitat, their crumbling logs, trunks, ...

The shrew is found only in the Eastern Sierra Nevada ... The species is even predicted to lose 89 percent of its habitat by the 2080s due to climate change.

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 ...

From the bumblebee bat to the Baluchistan pygmy jerboa, here are eight of the world's smallest mammals who thrive in a world built for giants.

Habitat disturbances ... No larger than a human thumb and lighter than a penny, the Etruscan shrew (Suncus etruscus), also known as the Etruscan pygmy shrew or the Pygmy white-toothed shrew ...