A tree shrew was rescued by the Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (ACRES) after getting trapped in a retaining ...

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Many plants contain pungent chemicals that deter animals from eating ...

Spicy foods elicit a pungent or hot and painful sensation that repels most mammals. However, the tree shrew (Tupaia belangeri chinensis), a species closely related to primates, seems to violate this ...

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that chronic exposure to artificial light at night (LAN) can trigger depression-like behaviors by activating a specific ...

Pregnancy may explain why this poor tree shrew got stuck in a drainage pipe.On June 2, Facebook user Ng Suan Eng shared her ...

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 ...

February 5, 2013, Shenzhen and Kunming, China - In a collaborative study published online today in Nature Communications, researchers from Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...