Some mammals hibernate to survive in winter, but the Eurasian common shrew (Sorex araneus) employs Dehnel's phenomenon to get ...

Last autumn, I was canoeing in a quiet saltwater cove on the Maine coast when I realized I had a tiny stowaway onboard.

Names we assign to wildlife possess two equal but opposite powers. They can expedite or even enrich communication, or they ...

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 ...

In preparation for winter, the common shrew (Sorex araneus) shrinks its brain by 30 percent to conserve precious energy. Then ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. a small brown shrew is about 1/3 of the size of the blue-gloved human hand it is sitting on. In preparation for winter, the common ...

The common shrew looks unremarkable, a few grams of fur and teeth scurrying under leaf litter. Yet this tiny mammal performs ...

A tiny shrew weighing the same as a sugar cube has been described as new to science, following a decade of research. Its body is just 5cm in length. During fieldwork in 2023 in Southern Ethiopia, ...

Some small mammals do something that sounds like science fiction. As winter approaches, they shrink their brains and skulls to save energy. Then, when spring returns, they rebuild what they lost and ...

An international team of researchers, with the involvement of the UAB, has conducted a study that explains the evolutionary origins of the Dehnel phenomenon, a unique seasonal adaptation in small ...

The masked shrew is small but resilient. Illustration by Adelaide Murphy Tyrol. Keep up with the stories that matter. Google recently introduced a feature allowing you to customize your search results ...