According to the BBC, there are an estimated 8.7 million species of animals in the world. Experts believe some of these species will go extinct before they are able to be studied. It’s believed it ...

Size doesn’t matter when it comes to genome sequencing in the animal kingdom, as a team of researchers at the Morgridge Institute for Research recently illustrated when assembling the sequences for ...

The smallest terrestrial mammal, the Etruscan shrew (Suncus etruscus), is about as big as a person’s thumb and no heavier than a couple of paper clips. To have enough energy to survive, it must eat ...

UC Santa Barbara researcher Susanne Meyer remembers when she went out to collect skin biopsy samples from free roaming blue whales in the Santa Barbara Channel. Standing with her teammates on the deck ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A macro closeup shot of the smallest mammal in the world known as the Etruscan shrew sitting on a rock© Wirestock ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mammal that weighs about as much as a sugar cube sounds like a myth, right? Well, it might've been one, until a tiny new shrew ...