Hero shrews are small, ratlike mammals that are typically found in central Africa. These shrews have extraordinarily strong backbones. The hero shrew — a small, ratlike animal with a bizarrely strong ...

There is a small mammal living in a field near you that you may have caught sight of a few times but paid little attention to ...

Hero shrews may be small mammals that look like rodents, but they're strong, mighty and live up to their name on the inside. Their interlocking spine is unlike anything researchers have ever seen in ...

The Greater White-Toothed Shrew – which is described as looking similar to a character in children's TV show The Clangers – has never before been found before on mainland Britain. Ecologists are ...

Hero shrews have some of the weirdest backbones in the animal kingdom -- they're incredibly strong, with stories of a 0.25-pound shrew supporting a grown man standing on its back. No one knows what ...

The hero shrew — a small, ratlike animal with a bizarrely strong and oddly shaped backbone — has mystified scientists since it was first described more than 100 years ago. Now, a newly discovered ...