The last scientific record of the "lost species" of elephant shrew was in the 1970s, despite local sightings. The creature was found alive and well in Djibouti, a country in the Horn of Africa ...

The sengi is also known as an “elephant shrew” but is not a shrew at all. These little creatures are insectivorous mammals and are also related to the anteater, as they use similar tactics to ...

Agnes is eight years old and is recruited by an elephant shrew - a type of small mammal - named Attie to work for SPEARS (the Society for the Protection of the Endangered and Awesomely Rare Species).