A mammal that weighs about as much as a sugar cube sounds like a myth, right? Well, it might’ve been one, until a tiny new ...

They found that the shrews’ brain cells lose water but crucially do not die, meaning that the animals retain their brain ...

“I will never forget that moment. I called out to the others. The little shrew looked like something we had only seen once ...

A new species of shrew, Soriculus dexingensis, is discovered in Tibet, raising the number of known shrew species there to six.

For decades, scientists have relied on evidence that showed mice as the main source of Lyme disease in the Northeast. That may still be true in many places. But on Martha’s Vineyard, the top culprit ...