The Malaysian pen-tailed tree shrew could drink the most annoying drunken fratboys under the table. A new study found that the tiny animal subsists on a diet roughly equivalent to 100 percent beer ...

It weighs no more than a golf ball and could curl up in the palm of your hand. But the pen-tailed tree shrew can drink most humans under the table. The tiny creature has a formidable capacity for ...

Caper and Katherine are northern tree shrews, small mammals native to Southeast Asian forests who spend their days foraging for fruit and insects, according to Potter Park Zoo. In January ...

Potter Park Zoo in Lansing announced Wednesday that two northern tree shrew pups were born on Jan. 13. Their birth marks the first successful litter for parents Caper (4 years old) and Katherine ...

The other contender for nearest relative was the tree shrew; morphological data placed the colugos closer to us, but sequence evidence was spotty and consistent with any of three possible ...

Don’t get into a drinking contest with Vespa orientalis hornets. They could out-booze a tree shrew, even a fruit fly. Mere humans wouldn’t stand a chance. These hornets can survive weeks of ...