The tiny Mount Lyell shrew has been photographed alive for the first time, according to the California Academy of Sciences.

According to the University of California, Berkeley, the Mount Lyell shrew was the only California mammal known to science ...

You can now feast your eyes on the mysterious and very elusive Mount Lyell Shrew. It's a shy little creature. In fact, this ...

Momentarily pausing after eating some mealworms, an elusive shrew’s long snout pointed skywards, unaware of the historic ...

Three college students found a way to take photos of the Mt. Lyell shrew, which has never been photographed in the 100 years ...

A group of young researchers captured and photographed the animal on a three-day expedition to the Eastern Sierra Nevada ...

Credit: California Academy of Sciences/Cover Images The rare and elusive Mount Lyell shrew has been photographed for the ...

According to the University of California, Berkeley, the Mount Lyell shrew was the only California mammal known to science that hadn’t been caught on camera. That changed when three young ...

You can now feast your eyes on the mysterious and very elusive Mount Lyell Shrew. It's a shy little creature. In fact, this is the first time this creature has ever been photographed alive before.

Not a single Mount Lyell shrew had ever been photographed alive before, making them the only known mammal species in California to have eluded human cameras, according to the California Academy of ...

But the snaps weren't taken by professional researchers or wildlife photographers; instead, a band of three local students led the way in capturing the Mount Lyell shrew. Mount Lyell shrews were ...

For more than 100 years, scientists have known about a shrew living in the mountains around Yosemite National Park. California designated it a "species of special concern," but nobody had seen it.