Watch this Brazilian tapir calf thoroughly enjoy chewing its food, then learn more about these animals and what they eat.

This fossil hunt in Peace River uncovered one of the rarest finds yet: an extinct tapir tooth from the Ice Age.

At 5 a.m., six keepers file into the Houston Zoo's commissary kitchen and spend the next five hours chopping produce, ...

In a blow to illegal gold miners along South America's Madeira River, law enforcement personnel have disabled 277 dredges ...

Earnings at a top tourist attraction jumped up 30 per cent year-on-year.

The Tremembé Formation itself is the only fossil-rich unit in Brazil from the Late Oligocene that preserves mammal remains.

The Earth is currently experiencing its sixth major extinction event. One million species globally are at risk of extinction in the next few decades, including 27 percent of the world’s mammals, 41 ...