The cute creatures are chatty, family oriented—and facing a shrinking habitat in the remote forests of Ecuador ...

British marine biologist and photographer Richard Smith focuses his work on the ocean’s tiniest and weirdest creatures.

A vampire hedgehog, a pygmy pipehorse and a "blob-headed" fish were among the hundreds of new species identified in 2024. The ...

After consulting with federal authorities, rescuers decided the most humane course of action was to euthanize the animal.

Hippo star Moo Deng has celebrated turning six months old - following her whirlwind rise to global fame. Footage shows the ...

Pygmy seahorses, about the size of a fingernail, are some of the smallest vertebrates in the world. First discovered in 1969, little was known about the creatures. But in the early 2000s ...

Only a small number of the world’s animals, including lemurs and tamarins, have similar gustatory proclivities. One strange thing about pygmy marmosets, de la Torre has documented, is that their ...