Join us as we list the top 20 smallest animals on US soil. These tiny creatures may be small but as the saying goes, dynamite comes in small packages!
1. Etruscan shrew
![Etruscan shrew](https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Etruscan-shrew-1200x800.jpg)
2. American pygmy shrew
![American pygmy shrew](https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/American-pygmy-shrew-1200x800.jpg)
3. Least weasel
![Least weasel](https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Least-weasel-1200x800.jpg)
4. American ermine
![American stoat](https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/American-stoat--1200x800.jpg)
5. Smoky shrew
![Smoky shrew](https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Smoky-shrew-1200x900.jpg)
6. Pygmy white-toothed shrew
![Pygmy white-toothed shrew](https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Pygmy-white-toothed-shrew-1200x800.jpg)
7. Southern bog lemming
![lemming](https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/lemming6-1200x801.jpg)
8. Northern bog lemming
![lemming](https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/lemming4-1200x800.jpg)
9. Masked shrew
![smallest mammal in the world](https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Shrew_Crocidura_sp_01-1200x812.jpg)
10. Cinereus shrew
![Cinereus shrew](https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Cinereus-shrew-1200x800.jpg)
11. Western jumping mouse
![Western jumping mouse](https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Western-jumping-mouse-1200x638.jpg)
12. Southern red-backed vole
![Southern red-backed vole](https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-18-at-14.30.56-1200x647.png)
13. Prairie vole
![Prairie vole](https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-18-at-14.35.58-1200x720.png)
14. Singing vole
![Singing vole](https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-18-at-14.38.18-1200x712.png)
15. Tundra vole
![Tundra vole](https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-18-at-14.40.47.png)
16. Montane vole
![Montane vole](https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-18-at-14.43.39-1200x704.png)
17. Woodland vole
![Woodland vole](https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-18-at-14.46.40-1200x740.png)
18. Florida salt marsh vole
![Florida salt marsh vole](https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-18-at-14.48.17-1200x709.png)
19. Key Largo woodrat
![Key Largo woodrat](https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-18-at-14.50.22-1200x724.png)
Wrap Up
![Long-tailed Weasel Yosemite National Park](https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Depositphotos_404805408_L-1200x790.jpg)
There you have is, Americas top smallest animals! Big or small all animals deserve to live peacefully on this Earth. Let us keep this in mind for generations to come.
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