According to the University of California, Berkeley, the Mount Lyell shrew was the only California mammal known to science that hadn’t been caught on camera. That changed when three young ...

Its snout is raised as if it’s sniffing the air, and its eyes are glazed and bright. It’s no wonder why the tiny California mammal appears so stunned — the Mount Lyell shrew photographed in the Sierra ...

You can now feast your eyes on the mysterious and very elusive Mount Lyell Shrew. It's a shy little creature. In fact, this is the first time this creature has ever been photographed alive before.

It was finally ready for its close-up. The rare Mount Lyell shrew was recently photographed for the first time by a group of college students. The pointy-nosed, beady-eyed, greyish-brown creature ...

“But we got the Mount Lyell within the first two hours.” “It just shows that it’s generally an underappreciated species in an underappreciated ecosystem, that people haven’t spent the ...

But the snaps weren't taken by professional researchers or wildlife photographers; instead, a band of three local students led the way in capturing the Mount Lyell shrew. Mount Lyell shrews were ...

California even designated it a species of special concern. But nobody had ever seen the Mount Lyell shrew. VISHAL SUBRAMANYAN: There's never actually been even a confirmed sighting of the shrew ...

Not a single Mount Lyell shrew had ever been photographed alive before, making them the only known mammal species in California to have eluded human cameras, according to the California Academy of ...

California even designated it a species of special concern. But nobody had ever seen the Mount Lyell shrew. VISHAL SUBRAMANYAN: There's never actually been even a confirmed sighting of the shrew alive ...