When Auburn researchers discovered a new henipavirus in a local shrew, they named it after the small Tallapoosa County town ...

Raptors such as the barred owl and broad-winged hawk, and larger mammals are potential predators of the hairy-tailed mole. Even smaller mammals such as the short-tailed shrew may prey upon nestlings.

“The Framing of the Shrew” began the headline of a recent article in The Guardian by Katharine Gammon. It told of the first-ever filming and photographing by a group of young student scientists of an ...