Hero shrews are small, ratlike mammals that are typically found in central Africa. These shrews have extraordinarily strong backbones. The hero shrew — a small, ratlike animal with a bizarrely strong ...

Common shrews are one of only a handful of mammals known to flexibly shrink and regrow their brains. This rare seasonal cycle, known as Dehnel's phenomenon, has puzzled scientists for decades. How can ...

In 1910, a pair of scientists exploring what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo came across a shrew of improbable furriness and size (though it still weighed in at just a tenth of a pound).

Hero shrews have some of the weirdest backbones in the animal kingdom -- they're incredibly strong, with stories of a 0.25-pound shrew supporting a grown man standing on its back. No one knows what ...

It may be that there are no more shrews in Australia. There was only ever one representative, edging into the Australian political estate on the remote Christmas Island, closer to Java than any other ...

Researchers from Japan suggest that the tree shrew may be a practical small-animal model for studying the progression of human hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. This discovery would replace the need ...

Elephant shrews are neither elephants nor shrews, and are more closely related to aardvarks The Somali sengi, an elephant shrew that seemingly vanished the face of the Earth 52 years ago, has been ...

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If you liked this story, share it with other people. In 1917, Joel Asaph Allen examined an innocuous species of shrew from the Congo Basin and made a remarkable discovery: the shrew’s spine was unlike ...