pygmy

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The strain on the cruise ship is mostly spread by long-tailed pygmy rice rats via their saliva, feces or urine.

From Salon • May 11, 2026

Around 61,000 years ago, the pygmy elephant population declined sharply.

From Science Daily • Feb. 19, 2026

The animals -- including shingleback lizards, western blue-tongue lizards, bearded dragons and southern pygmy spiny-tailed skinks -- were posted in 15 packages between 2018 and 2023.

From Barron's • Feb. 17, 2026

A zoo is celebrating the birth of rare and endangered pygmy slow loris twins.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2025

My dad was like a thirteen-thousand-pound elephant freaking out over an itty-bitty African pygmy mouse.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas