More than 500 exceptionally preserved fossils are offering new clues about the evolution of Florida's animals and landscape.

Divers in Florida’s Steinhatchee River stumbled upon hundreds of pristine fossils from an obscure Ice Age period, including giant armadillos, ancient horses and possibly a new species of tapir.

After a century-long absence, the elusive South American tapir has reemerged, sparking hope and excitement among ...

For an extra side of adventure in what is dubbed by Mandai Wildlife Group as Asia’s first adventure-based zoological park, ...

It’s not hard to understand why capys have a cultlike following on Instagram and TikTok. I fell for the giant rodent decades ...

Divers exploring Florida’s Steinhatchee River have uncovered a stunning fossil site, revealing remains buried for hundreds of thousands of years in an ancient sinkhole. What began as a routine ...

Surprisingly, both dolphins and hippos share a close evolutionary ancestry with the order Artiodactyla, which also includes animals such as pigs and deer ... This order also includes tapirs. Together, ...

Komodo dragons are strict carnivores whose diet consists of mammals, other reptiles, deer, pigs, and even birds ... jaguars feast on smaller land creatures like deer, capybaras, and tapirs. But, when ...

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 ...

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 ...