Imagine stumbling across a tiny creature darting across the African underbrush, its nose twitching and legs pumping like a ...

The neurotoxic saliva of the short-tailed shrew is a unique adaptation among North American mammals. Its poisonous bite is a result of secretions of the submaxillary glands which contain enough toxin ...

The DNA of a long-nosed desert shrew newly discovered in Namibia reveals it as more closely related to elephants than mice. The new species of elephant shrew, given the scientific name ...