elusive South American herbivore. Looking like a cross between a pig and an elephant, tapirs can be six feet long and as heavy as a pony. “They’re so big and powerful but still so gentle ...

Amazon Could Survive Long-Term Drought but at a High Cost May 15, 2025 — The Amazon rainforest may be able ... Open Woodlands -- Kept Open by Large Herbivores May 14, 2025 — Before Homo ...

Asian and African elephants, though related, exhibit key differences. African elephants are larger with fan-shaped ears and ...

Today’s sloths are small, famously sluggish herbivores that move through the tropical canopies of rainforests. But for tens of millions of years, South America was home to a dizzying diversity of ...

In the remote mountain rainforests of Papua New Guinea, there is a creature that has managed to elude humans for decades—a ...

That variety is especially rich in tropical rainforests, but forests around ... and keystone species like wolves and big cats keep hungry herbivores in check. Biodiversity is a big deal for ...

From mastodons to ancient rhinos and giant deer, large herbivores have been shaping Earth's landscapes for millions of years.

This suggests that dense forests only became widespread after humans eliminated the large herbivores. "Our results provide strong evidence that the closed-forest model commonly used in restoration ...

It provides significant insight into the evolution of long-necked herbivores in the Late Cretaceous period. The new species fills a gap between earlier diplodocoid dinosaurs and their more ...

From herbivores to fierce predators, discover the truth about what piranhas eat and how their diet varies by species.

Termites—infamous for their ability to destroy wood—are rarely welcomed into rainforests that have been painstakingly replanted. But a new paper suggests that termite transplants may be ...