With their stocky build, trunk-like snout, and ancient lineage, tapirs look like they’ve walked straight out of the Ice Age - and in many ways, they have. In this video, we take a closer look at these ...

A Species Thought Lost Returns. For more than 100 years, the South American tapir (Tapirus terrestris) had been missing from the Atlantic Forest, a once vast biome now reduced to fragments due to ...

Costa Rica is not Africa, where a huge number of species pack more bulk than a full-grown man. Most of Costa Rica’s creatures are small enough to pick up and embrace in a bear hug (not recommended).

One design for a tapir exhibit CBS The students are competing for prize, there's also pride in knowing that some of their ideas may eventually make it right here into the tapir's habitat.