A mouse’s sperm is much, much larger than an elephant’s sperm. A fruit fly produces the longest sperm known to science. Why do tiny animals make big swimmers, but large animals make small ones? There ...

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‘New mouse species has elephant DNA,’ declared the headlines. It must have been hard to resist, considering the contrast in size between these animals. The wording conjures up images of runt elephants ...

If you're a fan of elephants and tiny things (which, let's face it, everyone is), then you will be as excited by this as we are: scientists in California have discovered a new species of mammal called ...

Elephant shrews were tiny animals, the size of a mouse, with an elephant-like tusk. They are known as sengi, a name derived from the Bantu language. A new species of the miniscule mammals were ...

(Reuters) - A new mammal discovered in the remote desert of western Africa resembles a long-nosed mouse in appearance but is more closely related genetically to elephants, a California scientist who ...