the common descent podcast did an episode on shrews recently. There are some pictures at the episode page, including both living and fossil shrews.
https://commondescentpodcast.com/2025/07/19/episode-222-shrews/
also: check out how weird shrew skulls and necks can be:
https://svpow.com/2025/07/05/nuchal-sesamoids-in-shrews/
Discovery of a Novel #Parahenipavirus, Parahenipavirus_GH, in #Shrews in South #Korea, 2022, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/06/discovery-of-novel-parahenipavirus.html
New open access NHM available ahead of print! "Seasonal Body Size Plasticity and the Generality of Dehnel’s Phenomenon in Sorex Shrews" by McLean et al. Read now! https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/735018
NEW EUROPEAN RECORD 🎉
We were able to detect the Pygmy Shrews (Sorex minutus) in the high #alpine up to 3,300 m a.s.l. in #SouthTyrol #Italy, 780 metres higher than known before 🐁
New short note in #Hystrix (w/ #ChiaraPaniccia & @Eliag from https://bsky.app/profile/euracalpenv.bsky.social )
📄 https://doi.org/10.4404/hystrix-00760-2024
#PygmyShrew #Shrews #SmallMammals #Hystrix #Südtirol #AltoAdige #EuropeanAlps #BiodiversityMonitoringSouthTyrol #GLORIA #Mountains #MountainPeaks #SoilFauna #SoilBiodiversity #Monitoring #AlpSoil_Lab #Glaciers #OetztalAlps #Sesvenna
SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Feb 7th, 2025
#Mosa #fat #plant-based #cultivated #Alabama #shrews #Nipah #Hendra #Vortex #deformed #core #elongated #ECM #acellular #nanocomposite #alginate #agroforestry #farming #trees #shrubs
My lovely #Science peeps!
Not enough characters to go into detail, but ...
In 2014, #Dutch scientists left a #hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts.
Did they? Oh, YES! Wild #mice, #rats, #shrews, #slugs, even #frogs & #snails *
Why? Apparently for FUN! 😄
(#Fun defined as getting on, off, then willingly getting back on.)
*Snails were disqualified b/c they couldn't slime in a straight line 😳
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2014.0210
Our Halloween special. The 1959 horror/sci-fi The Killer Shrews. What if shrews weren’t tiny?
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sarah6286/episodes/Episode-88-Halloween-Special-The-Killer-Shrews-e1q0p4j
#thekillershrews #killershrews #halloween #horror #horrormovies #oldhorrormovies #cheesyhorrormovies #creaturemovies #creaturehorror #scifi #shrews
Patreon backers have early access to one of the most eye-opening case files in all our seven years of investigating. Gus and Oliver had me do a lot of research for them about #shrews to wrap this case up. https://www.patreon.com/posts/93214888 #cats #mysteries #science
In late 2022 a new land mammal was found in Great Britain, the Greater white-toothed shrew. No-one is sure how it got here, but they are an established and damaging invasive in Ireland so finding out more about their range in GB is vital.
The UK Mammal Society has set up Searching For Shrews to monitor and find out more about this species:
https://www.mammal.org.uk/searching-for-shrews
The story of how it was found is here -https://www.mammal.org.uk/2022/10/the-naming-of-the-shrew-greater-white-toothed-shrew-now-discovered-in-britain/
#Pathogenicity and anti-infection #immunity of animal #H3N2 and #H6N6 subtype #influenza virus cross-species #infection with tree #shrews, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virusres.2022.199027
Biologist currently studying #WolfSpiders, #PocketGophers, #BumbleBees #Shrews, the wildflower genus Anemone, and #CrawfishFrogs--mostly using population genetic techniques.
#Biodiversity
#PopulationGenetics
#Hybridization
#ConservationGenetics
#TarletonState
#EcoEvo
#Evolution
#iNaturalist
#Genetics
#NaturalHistory
#Nature
#MacroPhotography #Macro
#AcademicChatter
#Academia
#HigherEd
#ScienceEducation
#Linux
#linuxmint
From species of #marmots to #moles, #shrews and #mice, many of the world’s #endangered mammals are small. Genetic sampling is important for understanding how to #conserve
#Conservation #Environmental #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2022/09/con09192201.html
shrew caravan...
