In 2025, animal and plant life continue to be threatened by a number of factors, including hunting, habitat loss or ...

The shrew – North America’s tiniest mammal – will boggle your mind. Ten species live in Washington state. And as you read this, thousands of them are darting around the ground like over-caffeinated ...

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What is it about William Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” that attracts progressive, feminist directors who hope to tame its inherently violent sexism and then spend their entire show fighting ...

What can be learned from a shrew — the tiny, furry, high-strung creature that needs to eat the equivalent of its body weight in food every day to survive? More than you might expect, including ...

The Christmas Island shrew, the only shrew species native to Australia, has been officially declared extinct. This small mammal, once endemic to the isolated Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, has ...

Australia has lost another native mammal, the Christmas Island shrew, officially declared extinct. This tiny insect-eating mammal was Australia's only shrew species. Its disappearance highlights the ...

The Christmas Island shrew, a tiny mammal once found only on the Australian island of the same name, has been declared officially extinct. It’s at least the fourth small mammal species to be wiped out ...

It’s official: the only Australian shrew is no more. The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List, the world’s most comprehensive global inventory on ...

John Woinarski is a director of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, a member of the Biodiversity Council, and co-chair of the IUCN Australasian Marsupials and Monotremes Specialist Species Group.

It’s official: the only Australian shrew is no more. The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List, the world’s most comprehensive global inventory on ...

A new species of “tiny” mammal was discovered in the mountains of northern Ethiopia. Craig, et al (2025) Journal of Vertebrate Biology In late September 2015 in the highlands of Ethiopia, researcher ...