A small, round body, a fine, pointed nose, and fluffy fur–visually, the water shrew looks quite harmless, just like a typical Central European shrew. However, it is actually one of the few venomous ...

When one thinks of venomous animals that might be lurking in the darkness, the furry and kind of cute northern short-tailed shrew is definitely not the type of creature that comes to mind. However, ...

Shrew spit is under investigation by Canadian scientists as a potential screening test and treatment for breast, prostate and ovarian cancers. The saliva of the northern short-tailed shrew can ...

The bad-tempered little shrew has had a well-deserved image problem for centuries, but that may be about to change thanks to its spit. New research at Mount Allison University in Sackville, N.B., has ...

So the question is, in the mould of the fate of the Babalawo, could the North, which gave the ruling caste in the APC its feet and existential being, be the same key to the final denouement and ...

A chemist in New Brunswick has discovered a potential painkiller in the saliva of a shrew and has patented a synthetic version of the active ingredient. When Mount Allison biochemistry Prof. Jack ...

Scientists at University of Galway have published the first record of a noble false widow spider feeding on a pygmy shrew, a species of tiny mammal protected in Ireland. The new study, recently ...

Terrifying footage shows a noble false widow spider capturing and feeding on a much larger pygmy shrew. The video, captured by a researcher in Chichester, West Sussex, revealed the small mammal ...

It was an "intimate" production, not by design, but certainly by necessity. The setting for Viroqua High School's production of William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" was more "intimate" as ...

Scientists at the University of Galway have published the first record of a noble false widow spider feeding on a pygmy shrew, a species of tiny mammal protected in Ireland. A pygmy shrew was captured ...