The Ice Age was a world locked in endless winter, where massive glaciers crept across continents and woolly mammoths roamed ...

Tonka, a Baird's tapir who lived at the Bergen County Zoo for more than two decades, has died, the zoo announced this week. Tonka originally arrived in Bergen County in 2003 at age 3. In the years ...

A 25-year-old Baird’s tapir died this week at the Bergen County Zoo, according to a Facebook post from the zoo. “Tonka” arrived at the zoo in 2003 at the age of 3 and lived five years longer than the ...

As a child living on the outskirts of São Paulo, Brazil, Patrícia Medici spent her playtime “walking along trails in the forest and watching animals.” Her passion for wildlife blossomed into a career: ...

We made three attempts to capture a jaguar after arriving at Fazenda Bodoquena in Miranda, Mato Grosso do Sul state, on a ...

To be clear, Elvis and other dogs are not actually doing calculus. (As Pennings writes in his paper, “In fact, he has trouble ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Tapir Trails, a three-day tapir conservation awareness campaign, will be held from Oct 31 to Nov 2, at Cheras Leisure Mall. The initiative is organised by PPB Properties, in ...

Biologists have discovered an adorable 'pumpkin' toadlet in a Brazilian tropical rainforest, previously unknown to science.

This first baby of the new year weighed more than 14 pounds and had a full head of brown- and cream-colored hair. And a body covered in it, too. At least that’s the description of the Reid Park Zoo’s ...

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