More than a century has passed since the last sighting of a South American tapir, a species previously believed to be extinct, until a recent, surprise sighting was reported in Brazil. Hidden ...

The tapir population in South America is still declining, with an estimated 4,500 individuals left in the wild—a 50% drop in the last 33 years. Illegal hunting, habitat destruction, and human ...

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 ...

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.