From the bumblebee bat to the Baluchistan pygmy jerboa, here are eight of the world's smallest mammals who thrive in a world built for giants.

From the Etruscan shrew, a creature so light it could rest on your fingertip; to the bumblebee bat, the planet's smallest flying mammal, these tiny animals have developed incredible survival traits.

Here are eight tiny tyne creatures known as the smallest mammals of the earth. At only 1.3g, the extinct B. vanhouteni is believed to be the smallest mammal that ever lived. This tiny, shrew-like ...

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Ever since 1993, when a deadly disease outbreak in the Four Corners first revealed the presence of hantavirus in North ...

The Pygmy Shrew has the distinction of being Ireland’s smallest mammal. It differs from mice in that it is tiny, has a long snout, a hairy rather than a naked tail, and red-tipped teeth.

For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly ...