Social media users are sharing a photograph of a paper art depiction of a small Topaz hummingbird with the false claim that it shows the world’s smallest hummingbird. The smallest hummingbird in the ...

A picture of a bird the size of a fingernail has been circulated on social media and has duped users into believing it shows “the smallest bird species ever observed”. The image was viewed tens of ...

The Bee Hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae) is the smallest bird in the world by both length and weight, measuring only 5.5 cm (2 ...