The common shrew looks unremarkable, a few grams of fur and teeth scurrying under leaf litter. Yet this tiny mammal performs one of the strangest tricks in biology, shrinking its own brain and skull ...

Winter is most commonly linked with various kinds of seasonal diseases such as common cold, influenza, joint pains, and tiredness. However, there is one life-threatening situation quietly on an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Eurasian common shrew survives winter by shrinking its brain and organs by up to about 20 percent, then regrowing them in ...

Most mammals take one of two approaches to survive the winter: they either hibernate, slowing their bodies to a near standstill, or they bulk up with extra fat to burn when food runs low. Then there’s ...