CORCOVADO NATIONAL PARK, Puntarenas — Our guide tiptoed up to a tree with a couple of vultures in it and then signaled for me to come forward quietly. I couldn’t figure out why Vincent Campos, our ...

In a recent study, a team of Brazilian researchers discovered six new species of silky anteater, a mammal that lives in tropical rain forests of the Amazon region and Central America. In a recent ...

Antwerp Zoo in Belgium has welcomed a new family member: a baby Malayan tapir. The newborn is a little boy, and his arrival gives a bit of hope for the endangered species. There are less than 2,500 ...

I received the following email from my grandson Parker, who was on a field trip in Central America: “While walking a trail in Belize after dark, a member of our group spotted a faint eyeshine from ...

Five million years ago, tapirs trotted all over Europe, Asia and the Americas. Now these big mammals with flexible snouts need help as their habitats continue to shrink. To the rescue has come ...

A study published earlier this month in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society describes six distinct new species of silky anteater, meaning there are now officially seven species of the ...