Until last October, the Mount Lyell Shrew was the ONLY known mammal species in California that had never been photographed alive.]
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Researchers know little about the furry critters as they’ve never been captured – a factsheet on the shrew by the California government mainly says ‘no data found’.
Its Wikipedia page is only a few paragraphs long, and experts have long worried it would remain that way given the shrew is of ‘special concern’ amid climate change.
‘Despite this shrew being a species of special concern, scientists know next to nothing about it,’ the academy said on Facebook.
