CORRECTION:The IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialist Group has not declared the Kabomani tapir a “unit of conservation importance” as originally reported in this article. Nor will the proposed species be ...

Four other species of tapirs are found in the Amazon and in Southeast Asia, but a new one hasn't been discovered since 1865. The new tapir, dubbed Tapirus kabomani, is the smallest of the bunch but ...

A new species of tapir was discovered in the Amazon rainforest that may be one of the biggest animals on the South American continent. Cozzuol et al Until recently, only indigenous tribes in Brazil ...

Discover the elusive Kabomani tapir, a new tapir species that thrives in the Amazon rainforest and has intrigued scientists for years. Historically, scientists assumed the indigenous hunters were ...

Theordore Roosevelt first described it as a “distinct” kind of tapir way back in 1912, but Tapirus kabomani only earned its name recently, after being officially identified by scientists as a distinct ...

For some considerable time now, there have been rumours of an incredible zoological discovery: a new species of living perissodactyl a tapir due to be announced from the Amazon. T. kabomani is known ...

A new species of tapir living in the Amazon Region—the anta-pretinha, or small black tapir, as described in the December 2013 issue of the Journal of Mammalogy—has been hailed by many as the most ...

The new tapir species has darker fur than other tapirs. (Photo by Fabrício R. Santos) BELO HORIZONTE, Minas Gerais, Brazil, December 24, 2013 (ENS) – A new species of tapir, a mammal considered to be ...

Somewhere within the American Museum of Natural History in New York City lies the partial skull and skin of a young adult male tapir, item number 36661, collected by former president Theodore ...