A palm-sized mammal that lives underground in California has been caught alive on camera for the first time. Three undergraduate students came up with an idea to capture the elusive Mount Lyell shrew, ...

The Mt. Lyell shrew, a mouse-like mammal that lives in the central Sierra Nevada, has never been photographed in the 100 years since it was discovered. It took three industrious college students to ...

For more than 100 years, scientists have known about a tiny mammal living in the mountains around Yosemite National Park. California even designated it a species of special concern. But nobody had ...

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Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

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. For ...

Momentarily pausing after eating some mealworms, an elusive shrew’s long snout pointed skywards, unaware of the historic portrait that had just been captured. Not a single Mount Lyell shrew had ever ...