The elusive pointy-nosed, beady-eyed, greyish-brown critter is native to the Sierra Nevada region.
The rare Mount Lyell shrew was recently photographed for the first time by a group of college students.
One of the students, Vishal Subramanyan, 22, told the outlet that their sighting could possibly be the very first time in history that a human has even seen the creature, which was named after Mount Lyell in Yosemite National Park. Subramanyan and his friends Prakrit Jain, 20, and Harper Forbes, 22, had purposely set out to find the species after learning it had never been photographed, and obtained a permit from California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife.
“Photography is really important for cataloging biodiversity on a rapidly changing planet,” Subramanyan told the outlet.
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