When you think of a trunked animal, you may think of the anteater or elephant. However, there's another species of trunked ...

The tapir is an unusual animal with a long history. It’s hard to miss, thanks to its stocky body and distinctive trunk-like ...

"They’re closely related to horses and rhinos.” Ume’s birth is a rare and significant event. With fewer than 2,500 Malayan tapirs remaining in the wild and fewer than 50 in North America ...

We found fossils from Pleistocene (1.8 million years ago - 10,000 years ago) aged animals like Tapir, Horse, Alligator, Turtle, and more! We even got some Eocene (55 - 38 million years ago ...

What do horses, armadillos, sloths, and tapirs all have in common? They’re all animals, sure. They’re all mammals, too. But there’s something more striking, more special, about them: Around 500,000 ...

Five hundred thousand years later, it's belching up remarkably well-preserved fossils, telling the tales of horses, sloths, tapirs, and armadillos that took an unfortunate tumble half a million ...

Malayan tapirs, which are most closely related to horses and rhinos, are classified as endangered. Native to Southeast Asia, the herbivorous species is in decline due to habitat loss caused by ...

Time will tell, but he has always been a professional little horse," Lynch said ... a five-furlong bullet breeze Nov. 24 in 1:00 3/5. Tapirs Valor is third choice on the morning line at 5-1.

While the tapir looks like a wild boar with a longer snout, it is more closely related to horses and rhinos. It feeds mostly on leaves, which it can grab using its prehensile snout. Malayan tapirs ...

thought a horse was running behind him. He realised it was a tapir only when he slowed down and let the animal overtake him. He said: “I was shocked and amazed to see this beautiful creature.” ...

Native to Southeast Asia, Malayan tapirs are distant relatives of horses and rhinoceroses and are the largest of the four species of tapirs. The odd-looking creatures are typically found around ...

Imagine an ancient mammal that looks like a blend of a pig and an anteater but is more closely related to horses and rhinos. This is the tapir, a fascinating creator that has roamed Earth for tens of ...