The Mount Lyell shrew, a tiny mammal that lives high in the Sierra Nevada mountains, was first described 100 years ago, but the elusive creature had never been photographed alive. So, in November 2024 ...

There is something inherently appealing about finding an animal few have seen in the wild. This could be a “lost” species or ...

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

made known some new facts about this diminutive killer. Unrelated to the rodent family and far from mouselike in its habits, the shrew is properly an insect eater. But, declared Eadie, the shrew ...

Search results include a sketch of the animal, a map of its habitat range and shots of other California shrews, plucked from their Wikipedia pages. But photographs of a living Mount Lyell shrew ...

Mount Lyell shrews are extremely threatened by the climate crisis and could lose up to 90% of their cold, high altitude habitat as the Earth warms, researchers said, citing a study conducted by UC ...

For more than 100 years, scientists have known about a shrew living in the mountains around Yosemite National Park. California designated it a "species of special concern," but nobody had seen it.

Another reason the Mount Lynell shrews had never been captured alive ... from climate change — with 89% projected loss of its habitat by the 2080s, according to UC Berkeley — the students ...