The Alpine shrew (Sorex alpinus) is a species of mammal in the Soricidae family.

The Valais shrew (Sorex antinorii) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae.

The Shinto shrew (Sorex shinto) is a species of mammal in the Soricidae family.

An alternative explanation is that the explosion resulted from the merger of two white dwarfs.

The Saint Lawrence Island shrew (Sorex jacksoni) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae.

Smaller bodies are called brown dwarfs, which occupy a poorly defined grey area between stars and gas giants.

So you're six years old, you're reading Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, and it becomes rapidly obvious that there are only two kinds of men in the world dwarves and Prince Charmings.

The Central African population is made up of a wide range of ethnic groupings, with the Gbaya in the west and north of the country and its sub groups the Ali, Gbaka mandja, Mandja and Gbanou in the centre the Banda in the centre and east of the country the Zandé, Yakoma and Nzakara in the east of the country and the Mboum, Kare, Kaba and Dagba in the north.

And it's not sustainable, and the huge logging camps in the forest are now demanding meat, so the Pygmy hunters in the Congo basin who've lived there with their wonderful way of living for so many hundreds of years are now corrupted.

Although it had been described by John Gray in 1874, the pygmy killer whale, until the early 1950s, was known only from two skulls kept at the British Museum.

A binary system is a system of two objects in space (usually stars, but also brown dwarfs, planets, galaxies, or asteroids) which are so close that their gravitational interaction causes them to orbit about a common center of mass.

The order Afrosoricida (a Latin Greek compound name which means looking like African shrews ) contains the golden moles of southern Africa and the tenrecs of Madagascar and Africa, two families of small mammals that have traditionally been considered to be a part of the order Insectivora.

First human zoos In the Western Hemisphere, one of the earliest known zoos, that of Moctezuma in Mexico, consisted not only of a vast collection of animals, but also exhibited humans, for example, dwarves, albinos and hunchbacks.

She would also welcome information on the indigenous populations of Gabon, including pygmy communities, who were reported to exist in slavery like conditions, and on the steps being taken to address their particular needs.

Stars less massive than 0.25 , called red dwarfs, are able to fuse nearly all of their mass as fuel while stars of about 1 can only use about 10 of their mass as fuel.

The celebrated pipeline between Chad and Cameroon caused water pollution, devastated pygmies' hunting grounds, destroyed harvests, and spread AIDS perhaps the inevitable result of ill educated migrant workers toiling thousands of miles from home, with a horde of prostitutes following them.