The Nicobar Islands are a biodiversity hotspot, home to unique species found nowhere else. Long isolated, these islands have ...

Researchers identified two brain areas in mice that helped the animals learn to suppress their instinctive fears of predators ...

Three university students have photographed what may be the most elusive mammal on the planet. In October last year, the determined researchers ventured into the mountains of Sierra Nevada in ...

How do predators use their vision to both navigate through the terrain while tracking prey running for its life? Pursuing ...

Found only on Union Island in St Vincent and the Grenadines, this lizard owes its strange name to its striking nasal horns. Real rhino horns are used for defence against predators, and to help reach ...

You may hear coyotes calling this winter as they seek mates, breed. Here's what to know about the Michigan predators.

To take photos of the Mount Lyell shrew, three students laid out over 100 traps last November in the Eastern Sierra Nevada region and checked them every two hours.

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 ...

A palm-sized mammal that lives underground in California has been caught alive on camera for the first time. Three undergraduate students came up with an idea to capture the elusive Mount Lyell shrew, ...

How big they are: Up to 32 feet (9.8 meters) long How long they live: Up to 100 years, but usually around 25 to 50 years What they eat: Fish, seals, seabirds, squid, sharks, and even whales Orcas ...

Weighing less than a nickel, a shrew can eat 7 pounds of slugs and insects in a year! Islanders most often encounter shrews as trophies brought home by cats, who delight in playing with these tiny, ...

to fit local contexts." According to Enough is Enough, the current gaps in sex education make students more vulnerable to predators. "Minors continue to be sexually harassed and abused even in ...