The common shrew looks unremarkable, a few grams of fur and teeth scurrying under leaf litter. Yet this tiny mammal performs one of the strangest tricks in biology, shrinking its own brain and skull ...

They found that the shrews’ brain cells lose water but crucially do not die, meaning that the animals retain their brain ...

The masked shrew uses special abilities, such as reducing its body size, to stay warm and resilient during the cold winter.

It's not unusual for animals like bears to build their body mass in the lead-up to winter, stockpiling fat while dialing down their metabolism to endure the lean times ahead. With a life-expectancy of ...

An international team of researchers, with the involvement of the UAB, has conducted a study that explains the evolutionary ...

Common shrews are one of only a handful of mammals known to flexibly shrink and regrow their brains. This rare seasonal cycle, known as Dehnel’s phenomenon, has puzzled scientists for decades. How can ...

Milestones in common shrew chromosomal research / Jan Zima and Jeremy B. Searle -- Introducing the common shrew / Nikolay A. Shchipanov, Jan Zima and Sara Churchfield -- Morphology and genetics of the ...

3D reconstruction of a summer brain (left) and a winter brain (right), of the same individual of common shrew (Sorex araneus), aquired with in vivo MRI These are for editorial purposes relating to ...