(Another species of hero shrew was discovered, also in DRC, in 2013.) In 2019, scientists led by Stephanie Smith, a mammologist and postdoctoral researcher at the Field Museum of Natural History ...

But the hero shrew has an astounding 10 to 20 processes per vertebra, according to William Stanley, collection manager of mammals at Chicago’s Field Museum, “and they interlock with the ...

Palawanosorex muscorum, known more informally as the Palawan moss shrew, was recently identified by a team of researchers, including Larry Heaney, Negaunee Curator of Mammals at the Field Museum ...

a team that included Bill Stanley from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, aren’t entirely sure what the expanded backbone does for the shrew, but it may help it crawl in-between the ...

applied this knowledge at field sites across Luzon. In the late 2000s, expeditions to Mount Labo and Mount Mingan revealed two unknown shrew-rat populations, found above 1,250 meters and 1,450 ...

Scientists at Chicago's Field Museum and international collaborators have described a new species of Hero Shrew – the mammal with the most bizarre lower spine on Earth. The interlocking ...

A new species of the mysterious "Hero Shrew" has been discovered in Africa ... Bill Stanley, from the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, US, said: "The expanded backbone and the strength ...

The newly described Palawanosorex muscorum, or the Palawan moss shrew, is known to live only ... a Filipino scientist and research associate at the Field Museum in Chicago, U.S., when his team ...