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 ...

The rare and elusive Mount Lyell shrew has been photographed for the first time in the 100 years since its discovery, thanks ...

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.

But nobody had ever seen the Mount Lyell shrew ... Vishal Subramanyan is a wildlife photographer and a recent graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. Back in the fall, he and two ...

The rare Mount Lyell shrew was recently photographed ... and obtained a permit from California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife. The trio set up traps filled with cat food and mealworms in ...

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 ...

Eleanor is a content creator and social media assistant with an undergraduate degree in zoology and a master’s degree in wildlife documentary production. The Mount Lyell shrew (Sorex lyelli ...