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 ...

At the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, two brown, fuzzy babies with big round eyes belonging to an endangered species have been born in the Small Mammal House. “They are incredibly cute. They look like ...

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 ...

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 ...

BOSTON - Moo Deng is social media's newest darling. The baby pygmy hippo first captured the hearts of gawkers at her zoo in Thailand, and then she devoured the world wide web faster than a head of ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, May 21 (UNHCR) - Among the tens of thousands of displaced Congolese people living in camps in North Kivu province, the Pygmies are particularly vulnerable and ...