The neurotoxic saliva of the short-tailed shrew is a unique adaptation among North American mammals. Its poisonous bite is a result of secretions of the submaxillary glands which contain enough toxin ...

All predators of small mammals take deer mice. Some of these are hawks, owls, snakes, short-tailed shrews, foxes, minks, weasels, bobcats and coyotes. Choate, J. R. 1973. Identification and recent ...

It likes to hunt toads, frogs, salamanders, lizards and their eggs, ground-nesting bird, eggs, and small mammals like mice or shrews. When threatened, the hognose will flatten its head and hiss ...

Scientists have made the most detailed study yet of a fossil found in Skye of a mouse or shrew-like creature that lived more than 165 million years ago. The jaw of Borealestes serendipitus was ...

Mice in the walls make a scratching and scrabbling sound and may only venture out at night, making it hard to determine what animal is causing the noise. Mice can be lured out of walls with food ...

Think of wolves hunting moose, owls hunting mice, or shrews hunting worms and insects. Less obvious carnivorous interactions involve many small individuals consuming a larger one. Such group ...

Etruscan Shrew: Known as the smallest mammal by mass, this shrew weighs only a few grams and has a rapid metabolism to sustain its energy levels. Bumblebee Bat: Also called Kitti's hog-nosed bat, it ...

Thankfully — unless you’re a mouse, shrew or chipmunk — the Northern copperhead’s population “is low but stable,” said Jenny ...

The common shrew is an excellent model to investigate this problem because of its many geographical races (potential species) differing chromosomally, and its several sibling species (recently ...

The animal is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand A little-known mammal related to an elephant but as small as a mouse has been ... species" of elephant shrew was in the 1970s, despite ...

Mosquitoes can also carry dengue and Japanese encephalitis among many other diseases. Shrews are small, mole-like mammals that are sometimes mistaken for mice. But unlike most other mammals, some ...

Grasshopper mice have captured the interest of researchers ... scent - so they can follow their noses home. The tree shrew lives in the tropical rainforest, where there are more tiny creatures ...