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Australia’s Only Shrew is Now officially Extinct, Killed by Non-native Species Introduced by Humans

The Christmas Island shrew was a small, short-legged creature with a pointed muzzle. Like other shrews, it resembled a mouse ...
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And then there were none: Australia's only shrew declared extinct

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 ...
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Christmas Island shrew officially declared extinct: IUCN

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 ...
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3 undergraduate students have taken the first photograph of the Mount Lyell shrew

For more than 100 years, scientists have known about a shrew living in the mountains around Yosemite National Park. California designated it a "species of special concern," but nobody had seen it. For ...