Somewhere within the American Museum of Natural History in New York City lies the partial skull and skin of a young adult male tapir, item number 36661, collected by former president Theodore ...

Discover the elusive Kabomani tapir, a new tapir species that thrives in the Amazon rainforest and has intrigued scientists for years. Historically, scientists assumed the indigenous hunters were ...

Brazilian conservation biologist Patrícia Medici first won a Whitley Award, the “Green Oscars” for conservation science, in 2008; this year, she’s the recipient of the top tier of the prize, the ...

Over 14,000 lowland tapirs (Tapirus terrestris), also known as Brazilian tapirs, roam an Amazonian landscape across Bolivia and Peru, according to new research by scientists with the Wildlife ...

Beneath the viridescent understory of the Brazilian Amazon, ecologist Lucas Paolucci has been honing his skills for hunting tapir dung. In this region’s degraded rain forests, he sees the piglike ...

A bizarre new species of frog with a 'tapir-like' nose for burrowing underground has been discovered in the Amazon rainforest thanks to its 'beeping' calls. The new species, found at the lower ...

The people of Peru’s Comunidad Nativa Tres Esquinas have long known about a tiny, burrowing frog with a long snout; one local name for it is rana danta, “tapir frog” for its resemblance to the ...