Paulina struggles to open her eyes, sees strange people in her space and raises her tiny claws in warning. Despite the threat, it's hard not to want to cuddle the pint-sized furball and her mate ...

Weighing less than a mango and highly shy, the petite silky anteater is one of the smallest mammals on the planet. But at least one of the species - which looked not dissimilar to Edward Scissorhands ...

In a recent study published in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, a team of Brazilian researchers discovered six new species of silky anteater, a mammal that lives in tropical rain forests of ...