About half a million years ago, several horses, sloths and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in Florida's Big Bend region and died. The sinkhole filled ...

A rare and endangered baby animal that looks like a “fuzzy watermelon” has a new name, and it’s also a fruit, a Washington ...

The Cavern Restaurant, operated by Tung Lok Group, is open to the public and accessible without entry into Rainforest Wild ...

For over a hundred years, the South American tapir (Tapirus terrestris) was thought to have vanished from Brazil’s coastal ...

TACOMA, Wash. — Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium announced the name and gender of their rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf Tuesday. It's a girl! Staff at the Tacoma zoo made the name and gender ...

It’s a girl! Point Defiance Zoo recently welcomed a rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf. Her name is Ume, which means plum blossom and apricot in Japanese. The zoo says her keeper staff chose the ...

Well, this week’s cuteness was going to be about the Puppy Bowl coinciding with the recent Superb Owl, but then Point ...

Credit: POINT DEFIANCE ZOO & AQUARIUM/Cover Images A rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf was born at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington on Sunday, 2 February 2025, only the second ...

A zoo in Bristol has welcomed two critically endangered primates with very distinctive voices - meaning visitors may hear them before they see them. Red ruffed lemurs growl, grunt and even scream.

Researchers found that poachers in Brazil are using Facebook groups to connect, plan illegal hunts, and post photos of their ...

The tapir, the biggest land mammal in South America, has been spotted in Brazil's Costa Verde region 100 years after its last ...

I AM the sort of kid who grew up watching nature documentaries,” our jaguar-tracking guide Bruno Sartori tells us. “Now I ...