Looks like: Body is 3 to 4 inches long, and tail is 2 to 5 inches long. Color of back is variable, but generally grayish brown, with white belly and feet. Can be confused with other similar species, ...

A tiny deer-like animal has been born at a zoo in the U.K. – and it's so small, it resembles a mouse. In fact, the animal is called a mouse deer and it is about 8 inches tall, around the size of a ...

If a truly snowy winter ever arrives to our region, you might see footprints resembling those left by some tiny, whimsical rabbit. In reality, they likely belong to the western deer mouse. As the ...

An unusually tiny deer has been found in Vietnam. Researchers say it’s the first sighting of the rare silver-backed chevrotain in nearly three decades. At less than 10 pounds, the chevrotain, which ...

Prior to this rediscovery, there were only two other known records of the animal, the last being in 1990 Wildlife conservationists have recently rediscovered a small deer-like species that went ...

Neither mouse nor deer, this Vietnamese ungulate is shy, walks on the tips of its hooves and was just spotted in the wild for the first time in almost 30 years. Environmental group Global Wildlife ...

HANOI, Vietnam — A tiny deer-like species not seen by scientists for nearly 30 years has been photographed in a forest in southern Vietnam, a conservation group said Tuesday. Images of the ...

A zoo in Wroclaw, Poland has captured the birth of a tiny mouse deer on camera for the first time ever, in a hopeful moment for the highly endangered species originating from the Philippines.

When a species of animal hasn't been seen in decades, it's often feared that mankind or natural environmental factors have driven it to extinction. That was the case with the Vietnam mouse-deer, also ...

Wildlife conservationists have recently rediscovered a small deer-like species that went missing in the 1990s. On Monday, members of the Global Wildlife Conservation and their partners at the Southern ...

An unusually tiny deer has been found in Vietnam. Researchers say it’s the first sighting of the rare silver-backed chevrotain in nearly three decades. At less than 10 pounds, the chevrotain, which ...