PHOENIX — The cactus ferruginous pygmy owl native to Arizona, one of North America’s smallest raptors, was unprotected by the federal government for nearly two decades entering last week. The U.S.

It wasn’t until a photo was posted on Facebook in 2017 that Graham Short, of the California Academy of Sciences, recognised it as possibly being a new species. He then teamed up with Auckland Museum’s ...

Pygmy activists from Congo demanded that the United Nations set up a tribunal to try government and rebel fighters accused of slaughtering and eating Pygmies during fighting in the northeastern corner ...

Guwahati: Eighteen captive-bred pygmy hogs, the world’s smallest and rarest wild pigs, were released in Assam’s Manas National Park on Saturday, taking the total number of this critically endangered ...