Measuring only about 2- to 4-inches long, including their tail, the tiny shrews have reddish brown or grayish-brown fur, ...

Adults weigh 3-6.5 g (0.11-0.23 oz.). The masked shrew is intermediate in size between the smaller, more slender pygmy shrew and the larger ... buried in the fur of the rump of a sibling. Although ...

With a life-expectancy of barely a year, the poor ol' Eurasian common shrew (Sorex araneus) has no desire to waste precious months catching Zs beneath the snow drifts. It instead evolved a very ...

New research shows how the Eurasian common shrew (Sorex araneus) changes its brain and bodily size throughout the year. The study, published online in eLife, reveals how changes in gene expression ...