Tiny Elephant Shrew Is Smallest of Its Kind

Friday, June 27, 2014 - 11:30 in Biology & Nature

A new, tiny species of elephant shrew, also called a round-eared sengi, has been discovered in an ancient volcanic region in the Namib Desert in Africa. The creature sports a trunk-like snout and a weird scent gland on the underside of its tail.

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