Momentarily pausing after eating some mealworms, an elusive shrew’s long snout pointed skywards, unaware of the historic ...

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

According to the University of California, Berkeley, the Mount Lyell shrew was the only California mammal known to science ...

High up in the Sierra Nevada, the tiny Mount Lyell shrew has been shying away from cameras since it was first identified almost 100 years ago. Despite being a documented species, it was the only known ...

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

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.

You can now feast your eyes on the mysterious and very elusive Mount Lyell Shrew. It's a shy little creature. In fact, this ...

To take photos of the Mount Lyell shrew, three students laid out over 100 traps last November in the Eastern Sierra Nevada ...

Researchers at Auburn University are part of a team that has discovered a new virus in North America. The virus, identified ...

Like many other species, the Mount Lyell shrew is threatened by climate change. Eighty-nine percent of the rodent’s habitat is expected to vanish by the 2080s. According to the University of ...

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 ...

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 ...