The Christmas Island shrew was a small, short-legged creature with a pointed muzzle. Like other shrews, it resembled a mouse ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler It never weighed more than a spoonful of sugar. Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, ...

A researcher says the long-suspected extinction of the mouse-sized mammal is "another stain" on Australia's environmental record.

The Christmas Island shrew, a tiny mammal once found only on the Australian island of the same name, has been declared ...