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It had the shape of a pig, the nose of an elephant, the eyebrows of a rhinoceros, and the tail of a cow. This "magical creature" from more than 2,000 years ago was found in the Han Dynasty imperial ...

Researchers have documented conflict between between a tapir and a dog in Mexico, highlighting the impact of encroaching human settlement on this living fossil species. Tapirs are a living fossil, ...

World Tapir Day is observed every year on April 27 to raise awareness about tapirs, one of the world's most unique and ancient animals. In 2025, World Tapir Day will again remind people why it is ...

Forty thousand years ago — 28,000 years before the Neolithic Revolution saw hunter-gatherers settle down and farm, 36,000 before the first pyramids took shape, and 39,000 before the Norman conquest of ...

The male Malayan tapir breached his habitat early Tuesday morning but was successfully captured an hour later, the Florida zoo said Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been ...

Terengganu Perhilitan director Loo Kean Seng says the 250kg tapir was found by a road user along the Jalan Kuala ...

A female South American tapir is seen with its baby in Shanghai Zoo, east China's Shanghai, Oct. 9, 2020. The baby tapir was born on Sept. 8 in the zoo. (Xinhua/Zhang Jiansong) A female South American ...

Ever since Ume the Malayan tapir was born at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington, last month, the baby animal-loving side of the internet (and let's be honest, that's everybody) ...