A mammal that weighs about as much as a sugar cube sounds like a myth, right? Well, it might’ve been one, until a tiny new shrew species was discovered in the Ethiopian highlands. Named after an ...
Australia has lost another native mammal, the Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura), officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List on 10 ...
The Christmas Island shrew, the only shrew species native to Australia, has been officially declared extinct. This small mammal, once endemic to the isolated Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, has ...