In our newest series, The Biomimicry Manual, we are thinking about design in a different way and asking ourselves “How would nature do it?”. Nature’s designs are tried and true, and there are a number ...

The genome of the Chinese tree shrew provides new insights into facilitating further biomedical research. In a collaborative study published in Nature Communications, researchers from Kunming ...

Almost all mammals avoid eating chili peppers and other "hot" foods, because of the pain they induce. But not the tree shrew, according to a study publishing July 12 in the open-access journal PLOS ...

The Malaysian pen-tailed tree shrew could drink the most annoying drunken fratboys under the table. A new study found that the tiny animal subsists on a diet roughly equivalent to 100 percent beer, ...

BEIJING -- Chinese researchers have released an updated version of the tree shrew genome with more genetic information of the animal. The tree shrew is a mammal the size of a lab mouse and is a close ...

LANSING, MI – A Michigan zoo is welcoming two new residents. Potter Park Zoo in Lansing announced Wednesday that two northern tree shrew pups were born on Jan. 13. Their birth marks the first ...