Our vehicle pulled into the village late one rainy night. Dozens of my new neighbors, Sierra Leone s Mende people, emerged from their thatch-roof houses, looking cross at being woken up and not ...

After months of waiting, a little pygmy possum has been found on Kangaroo Island in Australia. This is the first time that the tiny animal has been spotted after a wildfire ravaged the island last ...

The stranding and death of a pygmy sperm whale on a Brooklyn beach raises concerns an unknown factor may be troubling this rare squid-hunting species that much prefers the sea’s deep waters, experts ...

On the Indonesian island of Flores, there lives a group of people known as the Rampasasa pygmies. Their average height is about four feet seven inches, and their hamlet is very close to Liang Bua, a ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian wildlife authorities rescued two starving pygmy elephant calves on Borneo island in the first known cases of the endangered animals ...

The pygmy three-toed sloth (Bradypus pygmaeus) is one of the world’s most endangered mammals, according to a detailed survey of the population, which found less than 100 sloths hanging on in their ...

A Smithsonian scientist found that pygmy sloths wander inland in addition to inhabiting the mangrove fringes of their island refuge. He realized that the population size of the pygmy sloth was ...

Two pygmy populations on the same tropical island. One went extinct tens of thousands of years ago; the other still lives there. Are they related? It’s a simple question that took years to answer. As ...

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said tourists found the whale on the beach. The story has been corrected. For the second time in less than a month, a pygmy sperm whale ...

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, SC (WTOC) - Shore Beach Services on Hilton Head Island says an 11-foot pygmy sperm whale washed up on the beach, Sunday morning. They say the whale was buried after a necropsy - an ...