After vanishing for over a century, a mysterious mammal has reappeared in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, caught on hidden cameras ...

Tapirs are a living fossil, having survived about 30 million years, but three of the four species of tapirs (three in the Americas and one in south-east Asia), are listed as endangered.

A new ‘tapir’ from Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada — Implications for northern high latitude palaeobiogeography and tapir palaeobiology Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 227 ...

The tapir's two-month-old baby was also inside the cage at the time. In 2006, a Costa Rican politician became lost in the one of the country's national parks and was found by a search party with a ...

There, the tapir takes refuge in tiny green fragments — 13 individuals were detected in a 250-hectare (620-acre) area , half of what a single tapir is thought to need to survive in.

A tapir is a Brazilian animal that looks similar to an anteater. The usually docile animal is fast and powerful. Rio gave birth to a baby tapir in the zoo recently.

The tapir has been getting alot of attention for representing the Fed's looming taper, but CNBC now offers much better suggestions the animal that best symbolizes the Fed's pullback.

This currently unnamed natural model is a Brazilian tapir that was born at the English zoo on March 31 — Mother’s Day in the U.K.

Adult tapirs at Dublin Zoo Rio, the Dublin Zoo tapir involved in an attack on a two-year-old girl, with her new calf Click to see a bigger version of the graphic Adult tapirs at Dublin Zoo ...

“The tapir also managed to grab her arm and take a large slice out of it. “The skin and muscle was pulled away from the bone. She will be scarred for life.

A two-year-old child is in a serious condition in hospital after a shock attack by a tapir at Dublin Zoo ripped muscles from its arm.