They found that the shrews’ brain cells lose water but crucially do not die, meaning that the animals retain their brain ...

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 ...

These are for editorial purposes relating to this press release and the study “Baldoni et al (2025) Programmed seasonal brain shrinkage in the common shrew via water loss without cell death. Current ...

Milestones in common shrew chromosomal research / Jan Zima and Jeremy B. Searle -- Introducing the common shrew / Nikolay A. Shchipanov, Jan Zima and Sara Churchfield -- Morphology and genetics of the ...