The unusual adaptation is known as Dehnel's phenomenon, named for Polish zoologist August Dehnel, who first described the ...
They found that the shrews’ brain cells lose water but crucially do not die, meaning that the animals retain their brain ...
A new species of shrew, Soriculus dexingensis, is discovered in Tibet, raising the number of known shrew species there to six ...
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This tiny mammal regrows its brain each winter and may unlock Alzheimer’s cures
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 ...
Common shrews are one of only a handful of mammals known to flexibly shrink and regrow their brains. This rare seasonal cycle, known as Dehnel’s phenomenon, has puzzled scientists for decades. How can ...
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