By Rhett Ayers Butler It never weighed more than a spoonful of sugar. Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, ...
Australia declares extinction of the Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura), the country's last native shrew species.
It's official: the only Australian shrew is no more. The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of ...
Learn about the extinction crisis facing Australia and the plight of extinct endangered animals, including the Christmas ...
The world’s most comprehensive global inventory on extinction risk has declared the Christmas Island shrew extinct ...
But the half-inch predator does punch surprisingly far above its weight. According to a 2023 study, for example, the noble ...
Omar Padilla doesn’t often have the opportunity to perform in his native Spanish language, but now he’s playing Petruchio in a bilingual adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew. The role is his first ...
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.