Moo Deng, the viral pygmy baby hippo, has turned 1! The social media sensation celebrated her first birthday on Thursday, ...

The forests here have long been home to the Batwa, at 80,000 the largest Pygmy tribe; they are also found in Rwanda and Burundi. I visited them this past February.

Admirers flock to zoo to extend birthday wishes, one enthusiastic fan travelling from New York to partake in joyous occasion.

The Pygmies, without exception, have all the parts, organs, and powers of the human body, without any variation in kind distinguishing them from other men.

They emerge from the stillness of the rain forest like a lost tribe of prehistoric warriors forgotten by time - a barefoot band of Mbuti Pygmies wielding iron-tipped spears. The men come first ...

Deep in the Congolese rain forest, a group of Pygmies lives in near isolation from Western music. When a team of scientists played them music from Star Wars and Psycho, the results were surprising.

At the opposite extreme, the world’s shortest people are the Efe of Zaire--one of the peoples we commonly call Pygmies--whose men and women average 4 foot 8 and 4 foot 5, respectively. If we ...

Why the Pygmies of West Africa have such short stature, while neighboring groups don't, has been somewhat of a mystery. Now new research suggests unique changes in the Pygmy's genome have both led ...

For the Pygmies, this isolation goes back centuries. Long taken as slaves by the Bantu tribes who dominate sub-Saharan Africa, Pygmies were also sold to foreign traders for export.

Why Pygmies Are Dealing Weed to Survive Indigenous communities in the Congo have harvested marijuana as long as they can remember. Now, with no land to call their own, they turn to selling—with ...

The tribe with the lowest height is the Bambuti, often called the Mbuti. Four groups of Ituri Pygmies, together referred to as the Bambuti, live in the Ituri Forest in the Eastern Congo (Kinshasa).