It was after midnight in Quito when Stella de la Torre came for me, waiting under a streetlamp next to the black minivan that would ferry us to the Amazon, to see the smallest monkey in the world. I ...

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Why the Pygmies of West Africa have such short stature, while neighboring groups don't, has been somewhat of a mystery. Now new research suggests unique changes in the Pygmy's genome have both led to ...

Some 50 Pygmies of the Baka clan lead me single file through a steaming rain forest in Cameroon. Scrambling across tree trunks over streams, we hack through heavy undergrowth with machetes and cut ...

If you're on social media often and enjoy watching videos of baby animals doing their thing, chances are you've come across this feisty little pygmy hippo named Mars who lives at the Tanganyika ...