But while we’re busy chasing “bigger,” we're overlooking a very rich and varied part of the ecosystem — yes, we’re talking ...

When it comes to primate species from across the globe, they don't get much cuter than the pygmy marmosets of the Amazon ...

The Church publishes the Monitor because it sees good journalism as vital to progress in the world. Since 1908, we’ve aimed “to injure no man, but to bless all mankind,” as our founder ...

Scientists identified the tiny species of cat from a fossilized jawbone, which could date back as far as 300,000 years ago.

that we can hardly find them in the wild, let alone understand how they survive from day to day. From a tiny chameleon to a pygmy monkey, here are 14 of the smallest animals on Earth.

which he studies as a mechanism for anticipating and interpreting the world in which one lives. “The evolution of active sleep or the evolution of dreaming is fundamentally linked to the evolution of ...

The smallest animals have young that are proportionately enormous relative to the adults. The figure shows that hatchlings of the smallest snakes are one-half the length of an adult, whereas the ...

just when we felt our luck was turning the worst possible thing happened The fennec fox is the world’s smallest wild dog - about 20 cm tall. It’s also very shy, and it lives in small burrows ...