It was finally ready for its close-up. The rare Mount Lyell shrew was recently photographed for the first time by a group of college students. The pointy-nosed, beady-eyed, greyish-brown creature ...

It’s no wonder why the tiny California mammal appears so stunned — the Mount Lyell shrew photographed in the Sierra Nevada had never seen a camera before. And until recently, no camera had ...

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 ...

“But we got the Mount Lyell within the first two hours.” “It just shows that it’s generally an underappreciated species in an underappreciated ecosystem, that people haven’t spent 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.

The Mt. Lyell shrew, a mouse-like mammal that lives in the central Sierra Nevada, has never been photographed in the 100 years since it was discovered. It took three industrious college students ...

California even designated it a species of special concern. But nobody had ever seen the Mount Lyell shrew. VISHAL SUBRAMANYAN: There's never actually been even a confirmed sighting of the shrew ...

(CNN) – A momentous moment for the wildlife world was captured on camera after a live Mount Lyell shrew was photographed. According to the California Academy of Sciences, these shrews are the ...

(CNN) – A momentous moment for the wildlife world was captured on camera after a live Mount Lyell shrew was photographed. According to the California Academy of Sciences, these shrews are the ...