You would think that a mouse and an elephant would not get along, but in this story they do. Oh goodness I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s start at the beginning. Once up on a time an elephant, well ...

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 ...

Scientists have for the first time measured how fast large-scale evolution can occur in mammals, showing it takes 24 million generations for a mouse-sized animal to evolve to the size of an elephant.

(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 ...

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 ...

We’re used to mice being small and elephants being big, but there’s no reason they will stay that way forever. Elephants could become pipsqueaks and mice could get mammoth… and one of those will ...

It may look like a mouse, but it’s actually related to an elephant. Meet the adorable Etendeka round-eared sengi, a newly discovered species of “elephant shrew” that lives in an isolated part of ...

Because of its size and shape, this rust-colored creature resembles a rat. But it really shouldn’t be referred to as a such, given that elephant shrews — which are different from true shrews — aren’t ...

Conservationists recently tried to relocate a wild elephant from one forest on the island of Sumatra to another. The elephant’s original home, the Bukit Tigapuluh forest, has been heavily fragmented ...