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

There is something inherently appealing about finding an animal few have seen in the wild. This could be a “lost” species or ...

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

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

A rare species of shrew was just photographed in California for the first time in history in an exciting discovery for ...

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.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...