Vishal Subramanyan and Prakrit Jain had never even heard of the rare shrew they would soon spend months chasing. The students were both in the same mammalogy class at the University of California, ...

Weighing less than a nickel, a shrew can eat seven pounds of slugs and insects in a year! Islanders most often encounter shrews as trophies brought home by cats, who delight in playing with these tiny ...

Weighing less than a nickel, a shrew can eat 7 pounds of slugs and insects in a year! Islanders most often encounter shrews as trophies brought home by cats, who delight in playing with these tiny, ...

Found only on Union Island in St Vincent and the Grenadines, this lizard owes its strange name to its striking nasal horns. Real rhino horns are used for defence against predators, and to help reach ...