While the bumblebee bat and the American kestrel take to the skies, down on the ground lives another predator who shares the reputation for being pocket-sized. The short-tailed weasel is one of the ...

Native to Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, pygmy marmosets hold the title of the world’s smallest true monkey. They are ...

Toxic or venomous animals, like bumblebees, are often brightly colored to tell would-be predators to keep away. However scientists in the UK have found a bumblebee's defense could extend further ...

Beyond the well-known elephants and tigers, the world teems with tiny mammals playing crucial roles. From the Etruscan shrew, ...

If Asia’s bats — including Francis’ woolly horseshoe bat, the golden-crowned flying fox, and, of course, the bumblebee bat – are to survive, then they urgently need to be given more attention.

Five Reasons to Love Bats For Bat Week this year, we rounded up five reasons to love and conserve these misunderstood mammals.

The smallest mammal in the world is the bumblebee bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai), weighing in at just barely 2 grams and measuring 1 to 1.3 inches in length, about the size of a large bumblebee.

We might like to think that, but we’re wrong. Whether it’s the diminutive bumblebee bat, the lightning-fast cheetah or even a lumbering hippo, mammals hold important clues to what makes us tick.

Scientists are aware of about 1.5 million animal species, but it’s believed that there are almost nine million total — leaving many yet to be discovered. Some are incredibly small, like the bumblebee ...

From the largest creature that’s ever existed—the blue whale —to the inch-long bumblebee bat, each of us can rewind our existence to the same humble foundation.

The bumblebee bat—1.5 grams in weight and beautifully adapted for flying—is also a placental mammal. So are you. So is a bear, an anteater, a giraffe and a squirrel.