Researchers have documented conflict between between a tapir and a dog in Mexico, highlighting the impact of encroaching human settlement on this living fossil species. Tapirs are a living fossil, ...

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Four other species of tapirs are found in the Amazon and in Southeast Asia, but a new one hasn't been discovered since 1865. The new tapir, dubbed Tapirus kabomani, is the smallest of the bunch but ...

World Tapir Day is observed every year on April 27 to raise awareness about tapirs, one of the world's most unique and ancient animals. In 2025, World Tapir Day will again remind people why it is ...

Forty thousand years ago — 28,000 years before the Neolithic Revolution saw hunter-gatherers settle down and farm, 36,000 before the first pyramids took shape, and 39,000 before the Norman conquest of ...

Sure, you may not be quite familiar with the tapir. Not that it should stop you from enjoying these pictures of a very cute but endangered Malayan tapir (pronounced "tay-purr") calf, which was born at ...

SINGAPORE – A globally endangered Malayan tapir first spotted on Pulau Ubin in May could still be roaming the forested rubber plantations and fruit orchards of the island. This marks Singapore’s first ...

The baby lives at the Newquay Zoo with her parents and a capybara named Johnson Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously appeared ...

The tapir was last recorded on Aug 12 moving through forest after midnight in the west of Pulau Ubin, Singapore. - Photo: Marcus Chua SINGAPORE: A globally endangered Malayan tapir first spotted in ...

The male Malayan tapir breached his habitat early Tuesday morning but was successfully captured an hour later, the Florida zoo said Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been ...

JOHOR BARU: The Civil Defence Force (APM) has safely brought a tapir back to the Johor Zoo after it escaped yesterday morning. Johor Baru APM officer Capt (PA) Mazran Mohamed said in a statement ...