Antwerp Zoo in Belgium has welcomed a new family member: a baby Malayan tapir. The newborn is a little boy, and his arrival gives a bit of hope for the endangered species. There are less than 2,500 ...

The baby lives at the Newquay Zoo with her parents and a capybara named Johnson Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously appeared ...

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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 ...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The San Diego Zoo welcomed its first endangered Baird's tapir calf in 30 years, the organization announced Tuesday. Baird's tapirs are herbivorous mammals similar in shape to pigs, ...

Tapirs might look unusual, but that’s because they’ve barely changed since the Ice Age. In this episode, we take a closer look at these ancient herbivores - part pig, part elephant, part prehistoric ...

There’s a driver shortage. There’s also a shortage of pot-bellied pigs in Vietnam. Also, both of these statements is a filthy lie. I can boldly proclaim this because I read a lot about pot-bellied ...

I received the following email from my grandson Parker, who was on a field trip in Central America: “While walking a trail in Belize after dark, a member of our group spotted a faint eyeshine from ...

Thanks to her 6-year-old grandson, Janet Klein of Homer recently hosted a few interesting house guests. Five experts on ancient creatures slept in Klein's Homer house last month as they searched local ...