The natural history of the pygmy shrew is poorly known for all parts of its range. The pygmy shrew occurs throughout most of the boreal and northern temperate forests of North America, and along a ...

Screenshot from the video of the false widow spider preying on a pygmy shrew. The shrew is roughly 10 times larger than the spider by weight. Screenshot from the video of the false widow spider ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists say that the invading species, the greater white-toothed shrew is capable of colonizing the entire island by 2050, and this is leading to the disappearance of the pygmy shrew in Ireland ...

The western pygmy shrew is the smallest mammal found in Montana. They live in the northwest and northeast corners of the state. Measuring only about 2- to 4-inches long, including their tail ...

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 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 ...

A closer look revealed a short tail and a pointed face with tiny eyes. A pygmy shrew that had died quite recently for no obvious reason. Pygmy shrews are quite common in a variety of habitats in ...

Wherever it has spread in Ireland it appears to have led to the complete disappearance of the Pygmy Shrew, but it is unclear whether this will happen in the UK which has a ‘more complex ...