The smallest mammals on Earth are vanishing faster than most people realize, and the line between survival and oblivion has ...

When we think of wildlife, towering elephants or roaring lions often steal the spotlight. But nature’s most astonishing creatures aren’t always large on the other hand, some are small enough to rest ...

If we set aside elephants and blue whales for a moment and shift our focus to the other end of the size spectrum, the world of tiny animals is truly astonishing. Measured in millimeters, these ...

“I will never forget that moment. I called out to the others. The little shrew looked like something we had only seen once before,” says Yonas Meheretu, one of the paper’s co-authors and a researcher ...

Imagine an animal that seems to be assembled from various other creatures: it has large eyes, the round body of a rabbit, a rodent’s pointed snout, tiny pig-like hooves, and even fangs like those of a ...