#shrews — Public Fediverse posts

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🦎🇪🇬 #Ancient Egyptians carefully wrapped and sealed #animal #mummies including #ibises, #falcons, #snakes, #fish, #shrews, and a 2-meter-long #crocodile.

Researchers at the British #Museum used X-ray equipment and CT scanners to see through the fragile wrappings without touching them.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/egyptian-animal-mummies-x-rays-ct-scans-video

#animals #anthropology #archaeology #culture #economy #egypt #history #religion #science #textiles #thebritishmuseum #traditions #research #tksst #video

🦎🇪🇬 #Ancient Egyptians carefully wrapped and sealed #animal #mummies including #ibises, #falcons, #snakes, #fish, #shrews, and a 2-meter-long #crocodile.

Researchers at the British #Museum used X-ray equipment and CT scanners to see through the fragile wrappings without touching them.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/egyptian-animal-mummies-x-rays-ct-scans-video

#animals #anthropology #archaeology #culture #economy #egypt #history #religion #science #textiles #thebritishmuseum #traditions #research #tksst #video

🐭🕷️ From #shrews that weigh less than a penny to #spiders no bigger than a grain of rice, the #USA is home to some of the world's smallest #animals.

👉 https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/top-20-smallest-animals-in-the-us-11-203607/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=news_links&utm_content=smallest-animals-in-the-us

#nature #biodiversity #wildlife #biology #science #education #ecology #conservation

@boisterousbard @ashleygjovik

the common descent podcast did an episode on shrews recently. There are some pictures at the episode page, including both living and fossil shrews.

https://commondescentpodcast.com/2025/07/19/episode-222-shrews/

also: check out how weird shrew skulls and necks can be:
https://svpow.com/2025/07/05/nuchal-sesamoids-in-shrews/

#fossilFriday
#shrews

Discovery of a Novel #Parahenipavirus, Parahenipavirus_GH, in #Shrews in South #Korea, 2022, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/06/discovery-of-novel-parahenipavirus.html

New open access NHM available ahead of print! "Seasonal Body Size Plasticity and the Generality of Dehnel’s Phenomenon in Sorex Shrews" by McLean et al. Read now! https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/735018

#openAccess #seasonal #bodySize #shrews

NEW EUROPEAN RECORD 🎉

We were able to detect the Pygmy Shrews (Sorex minutus) in the high #alpine up to 3,300 m a.s.l. in #SouthTyrol #Italy, 780 metres higher than known before 🐁

New short note in #Hystrix (w/ #ChiaraPaniccia & @Eliag from https://bsky.app/profile/euracalpenv.bsky.social )

📄 https://doi.org/10.4404/hystrix-00760-2024

#PygmyShrew #Shrews #SmallMammals #Hystrix #Südtirol #AltoAdige #EuropeanAlps #BiodiversityMonitoringSouthTyrol #GLORIA #Mountains #MountainPeaks #SoilFauna #SoilBiodiversity #Monitoring #AlpSoil_Lab #Glaciers #OetztalAlps #Sesvenna

My lovely #Science peeps!

Not enough characters to go into detail, but ...

In 2014, #Dutch scientists left a #hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts.

Did they? Oh, YES! Wild #mice, #rats, #shrews, #slugs, even #frogs & #snails *

Why? Apparently for FUN! 😄

(#Fun defined as getting on, off, then willingly getting back on.)

*Snails were disqualified b/c they couldn't slime in a straight line 😳

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2014.0210

#neurogenesis

Patreon backers have early access to one of the most eye-opening case files in all our seven years of investigating. Gus and Oliver had me do a lot of research for them about #shrews to wrap this case up. https://www.patreon.com/posts/93214888 #cats #mysteries #science

#Intro

Biologist currently studying #WolfSpiders, #PocketGophers, #BumbleBees #Shrews, the wildflower genus Anemone, and #CrawfishFrogs--mostly using population genetic techniques.

#Biodiversity
#PopulationGenetics
#Hybridization
#ConservationGenetics
#TarletonState
#EcoEvo
#Evolution
#iNaturalist
#Genetics
#NaturalHistory
#Nature
#MacroPhotography #Macro
#AcademicChatter
#Academia
#HigherEd
#ScienceEducation
#Linux
#linuxmint