Pygmy hippos are categorized as endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. There are less than 2,500 adult pygmy hippos left in the wild in Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea ...

Affectionately referred to as Pip by his keeper, Taronga Zoo’s latest reptilian recruit is a pygmy python that is barely 30cm long. “He’s tiny, absolutely. He could easily fit in the palm of ...

In 2023, Jenna Palmisano picked up a sick dusky pygmy rattlesnake among the fallen ... where the larvae makes a beeline for the lungs. Adult parasites, which feed on blood, and can grow up ...

What does it look like? The Cultus pygmy sculpin is one of the smallest species in the sculpin family. Described by scientists as a dwarf form of the coastrange sculpin, it grows to around only 50 ...