The Mount Lyell shrew, a tiny mammal that lives high in the Sierra Nevada mountains, was first described 100 years ago, but ...

Students in NorCal recently set out to search for this particularly rare shrew, which was discovered 100 years ago.

A rare species of shrew was just photographed in California for the first time in history in an exciting discovery for natural science. But the snaps weren't taken by professional researchers or ...

The shrew hasn’t been trapped or recorded in two decades, Subramanyan told SFGATE: “So it’s very possibly one of the most poorly known mammal species in California.” The Mount Lyell ...

The trio set up traps filled with cat food and mealworms in the desert of the Eastern Sierra and caught five Lyells as well as 10 other shrews from three other species. Shrews have extremely fast ...

When Auburn researchers discovered a new henipavirus in a local shrew, they named it after the small Tallapoosa County town ...

Not a single Mount Lyell shrew had ever been photographed alive before, making them the only known mammal species in California to have eluded human cameras, according to the California Academy of ...

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Henipaviruses can infect many animals, including bats, horses, monkeys, dogs, cats and even rodents. This means they are more ...

For more than 100 years, scientists have known about a shrew living in the mountains around Yosemite National Park. California designated it a "species of special concern," but nobody had seen it.