Elephant shrews are neither elephants nor shrews, and are more closely related to aardvarks Nicholas Rice is a Senior News Editor, Weekends for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working with the brand as an ...

The Rosamond Gifford Zoo announced two major updates on Tuesday.

The elephant shrew lives! That's the good news from scientists today as field researchers announced the rediscovery of the Somali sengi, a species that has been missing for 50 years. Thanks to a tip ...

Long-nosed Cape rock elephant-shrews are fond of sticky treats, according to Dr. Petra Wester from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. Her investigations show for the first time that the ...

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Scientists working in the Horn of Africa have documented the existence of a remarkable little mammal called the Somali elephant shrew -- or Somali sengi -- for the first time since the 1970s.

A furry mammal with a trunk-like nose was caught scampering about in a remote African forest. This elephant shrew, a large one, is likely a new species. Conservationists studying the biodiversity of ...

SAN FRANCISCO (January 16, 2008) — Although there is unquestionably much left to be discovered about life on Earth, charismatic animals like mammals are usually well documented, and it is rare to find ...

For over 50 years, the Somali sengi (or elephant shrew) has been considered a "lost species" — until now. The furry, mouse-sized creature with a trunk-like nose is still very much alive, according to ...

For more than 50 years, the mouse-size Somali sengi was thought to be a lost species. Turns out, it wasn't. Researchers recently spotted the Somali sengi, a kind of elephant shrew, not in Somalia — ...