It may look like a mouse, but it’s actually related to an elephant. Meet the adorable Etendeka round-eared sengi, a newly discovered species of “elephant shrew” that lives in an isolated part of ...

A tiny, adorable mammal that resembles a field mouse and that stays with the same mate for life — the Somali Sengi — was thought to potentially be extinct. Scientists went more than 50 years without ...

A long-lost species has been rediscovered alive and well. The Somali sengi, an insect-eating mammal that hasn’t been seen in over 40 years, has turned up in East Africa, with researchers snapping the ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. The ...

Scout Comics is moving into all-ages comics with its Scoot! imprint and an affordable glimpse at the upcoming original volume Sengi and Tembo. The first issue provides readers the first 24 pages of ...

It looks like a mouse, moves like lightning, and has a trunk – meet the sengi, nature’s pocket-sized elephant. In this episode, we get up close with one of the most fascinating and underrated mammals ...

While studying the systematics and taxonomy of round-eared sengis (genus Macroscelides), we identified an unusual specimen from remote northwestern Namibia in the collection of the California Academy ...

For more than 50 years, the mouse-size Somali sengi was thought to be a lost species. Turns out, it wasn't. Researchers recently spotted the Somali sengi, a kind of elephant shrew, not in Somalia — ...

Scientists working in the Horn of Africa have documented the existence of a remarkable little mammal called the Somali elephant shrew – or Somali sengi – for the first time since the 1970s. While ...