Rare California Rodent Caught On Film For First Time. The rare and elusive Mount Lyell shrew has been photographed for the first time in the 100 years since its discovery thanks to a group of ...

One of the shyest animals in the region is the Mount Lyell shrew. As Smithsonian reports, the tiny mammal was finally caught ...

A group of young researchers captured and photographed the animal on a three-day expedition to the Eastern Sierra Nevada ...

The masked shrew has the largest range of any North American shrew, and occurs throughout Alaska, Canada, the northern third of the U.S., as well as portions of the Great Basin, Rockies, and ...

Food and Feeding Behavior: 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 ...

The Mt. Lyell shrew, a mouse-like mammal that lives in the central Sierra Nevada, has never been photographed in the 100 years since it was discovered. It took three industrious college students ...

Scientists have identified Camp Hill virus, the first known henipavirus in North America, in Alabama shrews. Henipaviruses, ...

(CNN) — Momentarily pausing after eating some mealworms, an elusive shrew’s long snout pointed skywards, unaware of the historic portrait that had just been captured. Not a single Mount Lyell ...

The Sierra Nevada is a majestic North American mountain range stretching ... One of the shyest animals in the region is the Mount Lyell shrew. As Smithsonian reports, the tiny mammal was finally ...

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