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 ...

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 ...

Silver-backed chevrotains, also known as mouse-deer, were thought to be an extinct species. But scientists have found evidence the animals are still alive, after images of the animal were caught on ...

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 ...

They're not a fictional species: Mouse deer still roam the Vietnamese woods. In 2017 and 2018, biologists set camera traps in Vietnam's coastal forests to potentially spot the evasive species, not ...

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 ...

In this Thursday, June 4, 2020 photo provided by the Wroclaw Zoo a rare Philippine mouse-deer is hiding in a thicket at the Zoo in Wroclaw, Poland. The zoo was the first one ever to record on video ...

A tiny deer-like creature about the size of a rabbit has been photographed in the wild for the first time in three decades in southern Vietnam, delighting conservationists who feared the species was ...

The lesser Malayan mouse deer arrived around a month ago to first-time mother Brienne and father Jorah. Adorable pictures show the cute animal, who is said to be "doing really well", in their ...