KLUANG: The carcass of a female tapir was found in Jalan Kahang Barat here. The 350kg tapir was believed to have wandered off to the road from its habitat in the Kluang Forest Reserve, said Johor ...

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 ...

More than a century has passed since the last sighting of a South American tapir, a species previously believed to be extinct, until a recent, surprise sighting was reported in Brazil. Hidden ...

It’s the order of mammals that includes rhinos (three toes), horses (one hoofed toe), and tapirs (three toes in back and four toes in front). Extra toes are an evolutionary advantage that helps ...

For over 100 years, the South American tapir was thought extinct in the Atlantic Forest. With its last recorded sighting in 1914, conservationists feared the species had vanished forever—until now.

The white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf was named Ume, the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma wrote in a Feb. 11 Facebook post. In Japanese, Ume means plum blossom and apricot ...