Imagine an animal that seems to be assembled from various other creatures: it has large eyes, the round body of a rabbit, a rodent’s pointed snout, tiny pig-like hooves, and even fangs like those of a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The silver-backed chevrotain (Tragulus versicolor), also ...

(NEW YORK) — Scientists have rediscovered a deer-like species in southern Vietnam more than 25 years after it was last recorded. A camera trap captured images of the silver-backed chevrotain, also ...

The silver-backed chevrotain — a mysterious animal that's the size of a rabbit but looks like a silver-splashed deer — has been photographed in the wild for the first time. The chevrotain is the world ...

The silver-backed chevrotain, or Vietnam mouse-deer (Tragulus versicolor), has been discovered living in the wild for the first time in 30 years, according to a paper published in Nature Ecology & ...

An elusive fanged mouse-deer thought to be “lost to science” for nearly 30 years has been caught on camera in Vietnam, according to an article published Monday in the scientific journal Nature Ecology ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

After talks with villagers and forest rangers near the beach city of Nha Trang who said they may have seen the tiny animals, conservationists set up camera-traps in a Vietnamese forest for five months ...