This is the 100 million-year-old skull of the tiniest-known dinosaur. "When I first saw this specimen, it really blew my mind ...

Even bugs as small as woodlice can disperse seeds they eat, setting a new record for smallest animal recorded to do so. The Kobe University discovery underscores the crucial yet often overlooked ...

Smallest fungi: waiting to be discovered. After the tiny Mycena subcyanocephala was photographed in Taiwan last year and went viral on social media, some incorrectly said it was the world’s ...

While B. pulex is currently the smallest vertebrate researchers have found, Solé noted that there could be an even smaller frog out there. "We are still far away from knowing what's living on the ...

The Paedophryne amauensis is the world's smallest vertebrate. The well-camouflaged frog lives on the forest floors of Papua ...

A “toadlet” in Brazil is the second-smallest vertebrate known to exist on the planet. By Sofia Quaglia At 6.95 tiny millimeters in length, this creature could fit on your fingertip. It is ...

Scientists believe they may know what the world's smallest vertebrate is. A tiny, pea-sized Brazilian frog called Brachycephalus pulex (or, Brazilian flea toad, even though it is a frog) has the ...

Researchers have discovered that woodlice can spread seeds they eat, setting a new record for the smallest animal recorded doing so. The findings highlight the crucial yet often overlooked role ...

Even bugs as small as woodlice can disperse seeds they eat, setting a new record for smallest animal recorded to do so. The Kobe University discovery underscores the crucial yet often overlooked ...

Even bugs as small as woodlice can disperse seeds they eat, setting a new record for smallest animal recorded to do so. The discovery underscores the crucial yet often overlooked role that small ...

A tiny Brazilian frog about the size of a pea may threaten the current record-holder for the world’s smallest vertebrate. The flea toad Brachycephalus pulex, which is actually a frog species ...

Saving the smallest and strangest for last is the smallest fish and smallest vertebrate known to science – an angler fish known as Photocorynus spiniceps. For P. spiniceps, there is a huge size ...