We asked our friends at the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville to spotlight something fascinating about our state. Though small, this fella packs a real punch. Northern short-tailed ...

There’s a reason the few photos available of the Sherman’s short-tailed shrew are of dead ones: That may be the only kind left or, they may never have existed at all. If they did, the only place on ...

There’s a reason the few photos available of the Sherman’s short-tailed shrew are of dead ones: That may be the only kind left or, they may never have existed at all. If they did, the only place on ...

I worked as a naturalist at Lowry Nature Center in Carver Park Reserve for about 20 years, and we had a wildlife-feeding setup for the masses. We had about a dozen seed-and-suet feeders placed within ...

Denise E. Robinson, Edmund D. Brodie, Jr. Short-tailed shrews Blarina brevicauda cached most (86.6%) prey captured. Few were consumed immediately (9 4%) or left where killed (3.9%). Shrews most often ...

One of Virginia's most common mammals is the northern short-tailed shrew. You've probably never heard of this animal, and you may never have seen one. Like many small mammals, shrews spend much of ...

Age was found to vary with tooth wear in a curvilinear, not rectilinear, relationship. The apparent rapid elimination of adults from the population after the spring breeding season was due to a ...

After a colder-than-normal November and a mild December, the first half of January has acted like January. With consistent nocturnal readings of subzero, we recorded an average of several degrees ...

This grey-black to blackish-brown shrew with a pointed, down-drooping nose averages 147-157 mm (5.8-6.2 in) in length, and is the longest of the Adirondack shrews. It weighs 10-17 g (0.35-0.60 oz), ...