The greater white-toothed shrew has become the UK’s first mammal species in a century after a social media post led to the animal’s discovery. ... posted pictures of the new shrew, ...

The world became alerted to the discovery after Melissa Young, a digital marketing executive in Sunderland, posted pictures of the new shrew, which had been caught by her cat in the garage.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

This Mount Lyell shrew is ready for his close-up – finally. Well over a century since its discovery, this tiny never-before-pictured mammal has been photographed alive. The pointy-nosed shrew ...

Just how entrenched the shrew’s bad reputation was emerged in 1658, with Edward Topsell’s Historie of Foure-Footed Beasts and Serpents, a bestiary largely taken from work by Swiss scholar Konrad ...

Three college students found a way to take photos of the Mt. Lyell shrew, which has never been photographed in the 100 years since the mammal was discovered.

The pictures they ultimately took made history. Previously, the Mount Lyell shrew had been the only California mammal known to science that hadn’t been documented on film.

One of the most bizarre mammals in the world now has a sister species. The newly discovered Thor's hero shrew shares the unusually sturdy, interlocking vertebrae of the known hero shrew, and it ...