Chester Zoo has welcomed a new arrival – a tiny Brazilian tapir keepers said looked like a “humbug on legs”. The female calf, who has not yet been named, was born early in the morning on Saturday to ...

The former coalfield of Geiseltal in Saxony-Anhalt has yielded large numbers of exceptionally preserved fossil animals, giving palaeontologists a unique window into the evolution of mammals 47 million ...

Today we discuss a creature that’s very close to my heart, the Baird’s tapir. It’s an enormous, elephant-nosed, whistling, puddle-pooper. What’s not to love? Baird’s tapir (Tapirus bairdii) is known ...

Update: The classification of Tapirus kabomani as a distinct species was officially contested in 2014. In what will likely be considered one of the biggest (literally) zoological discoveries of the ...

Miniature hedgehogs and tapirs walked the earth between 50 and 53 million years ago Canadian Museum of Nature/Julius T/Csotonyi A hedgehog smaller than a mouse and a dog-sized tapir are the first ...