shrewlike

When the dinosaurs died, the world went over to these little scuttling shrewlike creatures who could survive a nuclear winter and inherit what remained.

Camelot Now 2010

Her graceful neck rises higher than the trees, like a giraffe in slow motion, her liquid eyes staring curiously, then dismissively, at the gaping humans; she returns to her grazing as if these late-model mammals were no more worthy of note than their scruffy shrewlike ancestors, with whom she shared the Earth 130 million years ago.

Here Come The Dnasaurs 2008

For years, the mammals living in the era of dinosaurs have been thought of as tiny shrewlike creatures scurrying through the underbrush.

Controversies in Evolution: 'Jurassic beaver' unearthed in China - The Panda's Thumb 2006

For years, the mammals living in the era of dinosaurs have been thought of as tiny shrewlike creatures scurrying through the underbrush.

The Panda's Thumb: February 2006 Archives 2006

On Cuba, three species of rodent and two species of nesophont primitive shrewlike insectivores unique to the Caribbean have disappeared.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

On Cuba, three species of rodent and two species of nesophont primitive shrewlike insectivores unique to the Caribbean have disappeared.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Unlike the S'van, their furry, shrewlike faces could not be disguised.

A Call to Arms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991

Recent analysis of shrewlike fossil pushes mammalian evolution forward millions of years.

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