The South American tapir has finally resurfaced in the Atlantic ... No word yet on why the fish traveled near the surface. However, there are some theories. Scientists speculate that the El ...

It was caught on tape-ir. After over a century of being considered regionally extinct, the South American tapir was spotted alive and well in Brazil in footage blowing up online. In January ...

Ume is a white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf that was born Feb. 2 at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma. Her name means plum blossom and apricot in Japanese. Since then she has ...

The white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf was named Ume, the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma wrote in a Feb. 11 Facebook post. In Japanese, Ume means plum blossom and apricot ...

The latest animal to go viral isn’t a baby hippo or newborn tapir or anything that cute really ... If you know anything about this kind of fish besides the fact that it has a lantern on its ...

The white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf was born Feb. 2 at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, the zoo said in a news release. It’s the second time a tapir has been born at the ...

For over 100 years, the South American tapir was thought extinct in the Atlantic Forest. With its last recorded sighting in 1914, conservationists feared the species had vanished forever—until now.