New Year’s Eve: Party at the Museum is more than just a chance to see out 2025 in serious style. It's also a rare opportunity ...

Mammals of Iberia by Carlos Bocos and James Lowen (Bloomsbury, 2025). ISBN: 9781399411943. Pbk, £18.99.

An armadillo is an unusual-looking mammal, and one that most people would probably associate with southern states like Texas ...

Colorado’s weather can vary a lot across the state. However, November is the time when the temperatures begin to cool, and some areas may even get an early snowstorm. As the days grow shorter and the ...

If we set aside elephants and blue whales for a moment and shift our focus to the other end of the size spectrum, the world of tiny animals is truly astonishing. Measured in millimeters, these ...

Deep in South American rainforests lives the pygmy marmoset, the world's smallest monkey. This tiny primate, weighing just 119 grams, thrives along riverbanks. Its unique diet of tree sap and insects, ...

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 ...

It's official: the only Australian shrew is no more. The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List, the world's most comprehensive global inventory on ...

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.