A leading researcher has described the extinction of the Christmas Island shrew as "another stain" on Australia's environmental record. The mouse-sized mammal was officially added to the International ...

Once abundant on Christmas Island, the tiny, five-gram shrew (Crocidura trichura) filled the night forest with its high, thin cry before vanishing into silence. Introduced black rats and their ...

Australia has lost another native mammal, the Christmas Island shrew, officially declared extinct. This tiny insect-eating mammal was Australia's only shrew species. Its disappearance highlights the ...

The Christmas Island shrew, a tiny mammal once found only on the Australian island of the same name, has been declared officially extinct. It’s at least the fourth small mammal species to be wiped out ...

John Woinarski is a director of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, a member of the Biodiversity Council, and co-chair of the IUCN Australasian Marsupials and Monotremes Specialist Species Group.

Venturing into an Etruscan tomb once meant crawling through rubble, breathing dust, and crawling into rooms excavated more than 2,500 years ago. Now, it is possible to do so from a computer, even a ...

Imagine stepping into a 2,500-year-old tomb – without ever leaving your sofa. Using advanced digital technology, Swedish researchers have documented and visualized nearly 280 Etruscan chamber tombs in ...

A new species of “tiny” mammal was discovered in the mountains of northern Ethiopia. Craig, et al (2025) Journal of Vertebrate Biology In late September 2015 in the highlands of Ethiopia, researcher ...

In primates, visual information is processed hierarchically, moving from early brain regions that respond to low-level features to later-stage areas that recognize complex features and objects. In the ...

LENOX – Shakespeare & Company’s production of “The Taming of the Shrew” begins with the opening moments of Samuel Beckett's “Waiting For Godot.” Yes, you read that correctly. Those opening moments — ...

Austyn Williamson, left, and Rory Hammond, right, star as Lucentio and Bianca, respectively, in “The Taming of the Shrew.” In order to woo the fair Bianca, Lucentio poses as a tutor. Jamal James stars ...