Anton van Helden, an expert on some of the world’s rarest whales, was sitting on the couch in July recovering from surgery, ...

But while we’re busy chasing “bigger,” we're overlooking a very rich and varied part of the ecosystem — yes, we’re talking about the world’s smallest animals. From frogs no bigger than ...

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 ...

The Elf Owl was so small Mark was able to hold the owl with one hand. He's so small he doesn't seem real. He looks like the ...

Scientists think they might have found the world's smallest animal with a backbone - and it's a tiny frog. The Brazilian Flea Toad (which confusingly is a frog, and not a toad) is about 7 ...

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 ...

Fifth-year UW doctoral candidate Alyssa Sargent and her adviser, Alejo Rico-Guevara, teamed up with researchers from the ...