The pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis) was born on May 9th at Germany’s Zoo Berlin, weighing in at 13 pounds.

She is the absolute cutest.

For pygmy-possums, life on Australia’s Kangaroo Island was always quite nice. So nice that two different species of pygmy ...

Learn about Brötchen, the latest pygmy hippo calf of Zoo Berlin, to win the hearts of the internet. Brötchen means “bread roll” in German. It’s also the name of Zoo Berlin’s youngest pygmy hippo ...

The mountain pygmy possum, a tiny nocturnal marsupial, was once known only from Ice Age fossils. Today, we know where its 2,000 remaining individuals are holding on. In 1895, deep within the limestone ...

Millions are sharing adorable images of the viral Borneo Pygmy elephant. But are they real? Here's what experts say about the AI-generated trend and the endangered species behind it.

Thirty years ago, in 1996, six Pygmy Hogs were taken from this very site into captivity to establish an insurance population ...

The 4-year-old first-time mom Mabel welcomed a male calf on April 9, and the baby has since been "surpassing" milestones Benjamin VanHoose is the Senior News Editor on the TV team at PEOPLE. He has ...

The small body size associated with the pygmy phenotype is probably a selective adaptation for rainforest hunter-gatherers, according to an international team of researchers. But all African pygmy ...

In the course of evolution, the pygmy seahorse has adapted its appearance almost perfectly to the coral on which it lives.(Image Credit: Frank Schneidewind) The most identifiable part of a seahorse is ...