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 ...

An analysis of the sloth family tree suggests three different groups of the animals evolved to gigantic sizes in response to ...

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

In Panama, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute – the only bureau of the Smithsonian outside the United States – ...

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

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 ...

There is something that is to be said for finales. They can either tie things up beautifully or they can make us struggle to understand what the writers were thinking. We can find joy or confusion ...