Flea toads, dwarf pygmy goby fish and bumblebee bats are just a few examples of vertebrates that have shrunk through evolution, without losing any of their basic physical characteristics.

With GEMINI, Scherz’s team will study how the evolutionary shrinking of animals like flea toads, dwarf pygmy goby fish, and bumblebee bats managed to cram all their biological components into ...

The pygmy goby lives an average of 59 days, pipping the previous record holder, an African fish which lives for just over two-and-a-half months. A team from James Cook University in Australia reports ...

She nudged out the previous record holder, a marine fish of the western Pacific called the dwarf goby (Trimmatom nanus), which comes in at 8 millimetres at sexual maturity.

This small creature, measuring barely two centimeters (about 0.8 inches), has been named the "grumpy dwarf goby" for its threatening and unusual appearance. Its face always seems irritated, adding ...

Life is too short, but some animals don’t even have the privilege to live beyond three years. Contents1. Mayfly (24 hours)2. Worker Bee (5 – 7 weeks)3. Pygmy Goby (59 days)4. Luna Moth (2 ...

The pygmy goby's record-breaking status was confirmed this week by Guinness World Records. Not only is it the fastest living fish, it has the shortest life span of any creature with a backbone ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A team from Conservation Indonesia uncovered a new species of dwarf goby fish (Eviota samota) in Saleh Bay, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), during a week-long whale shark expedition in ...

A yellow pygmy goby floats inside its human-made home: a discarded bottle lying on the seabed. Wayne set up his camera a few centimetres from the bottle’s narrow opening, and focused on the goby’s ...

Initially, the researchers thought they had found a related species, the flaming dwarf goby, discovered in 1972. However, after further analysis, they realized that it was a completely new species to ...

The pygmy goby lives an average of 59 days, pipping the previous record holder, an African fish which lives for just over two-and-a-half months.