breaking up its outline in the moonlit jungle. Adults can weigh up to 300 kilograms and stretch nearly two meters long. Unlike its South American cousins, the Malayan tapir is the only tapir ...

It was caught on tape-ir. After over a century of being considered regionally extinct, the South American tapir was spotted alive and well in Brazil in footage blowing up online. In January ...

The discovery of an ancient tapir's skeletal remains near an emperor's tomb indicates that these animals once roamed China. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The teams are using their knowledge of the endangered Malayan tapir to compete in a design challenge that's part Animal Planet and part HGTV. Their mission: Research and design a new 3D "home away ...

If you peered through the undergrowth of the B.C. rainforest 50 million years ago, you might spot some unusual mini mammals, including a thumb-sized hedgehog and a tapir no bigger than a springer ...

The Baird’s tapir has existed for millions of years, changing very little morphologically over that time. But due to poaching, habitat loss, and climate change, the IUCN lists them as Endangered ...