Adults weigh 3-6.5 g (0.11-0.23 oz.). The masked shrew is intermediate in size between the smaller, more slender pygmy shrew and the larger ... buried in the fur of the rump of a sibling. Although ...

Over the next 20 minutes, Sturgess watched the female noble false widow spider hoist the immobilized, matchbox-sized Eurasian pygmy shrew—which was many times larger than the spider—nearly 10 ...

Researchers have confirmed the presence of at least one Eurasian pygmy owl in Spain, a new location for this little bird. Mongabay reported that the owl's sounds were first recorded in early 2023 ...

ATU’s Dr Allan McDevitt holding the invasive greater white-toothed shrew The invasive Greater White-toothed Shrew Ireland’s smallest mammal, the pygmy shrew, is quickly disappearing from the ...

Scientists have revealed footage of a terrifying noble false widow spider feeding on an unsuspecting pygmy shrew for the first time. The gruesome incident occurred in Chichester, West Sussex ...

The River Shannon might be the only thing to tame the march of a recently discovered shrew threatening to make one of its closest relatives extinct. Invasive miniature mammal the greater white ...

The greater white-toothed shrew has never before been found before on mainland Britain. Ecologists are worried, however, that the animal could wipe out populations of the UK's pygmy shrews ...

An invasive shrew species is spreading rapidly across the south and midlands, in the process driving out the native pygmy shrew. This is bad news for the local shrew, but the unwanted arrival ...