The wildlife cameras set up by Rio de Janeiro’s State Institute of Environment (INEA) have captured a truly epic return to ...

Giant ground sloths, mammoths and elephants, giant bison and tapirs, even species of massive armadillos and camels all died out in the millennia after humans arrived in the Americas. Australia ...

Many huge animals went extinct surprisingly recently. When they died, their ecological role was lost with them.

The US giant operates three petroleum exploration ... in 2014 two years after drilling its unsuccessful and costly Tapir South wildcat. This well was drilled to total depth of 4879 metres in ...

Jaguars are bulky animals, stocky, strong and imposing. The biggest jags of all live in the Pantanal. They are powerhouses,with the strongest bite of any cat in the world. They can chomp through the ...

As I follow the path from the resort’s clearing into the thick shelter of trees, trunks wound in giant, vining monsteras ... along with capuchin monkeys, rotund tapirs, snuffling coati, a ...

Fun fact: The world's first nocturnal zoo houses over 900 nocturnal animals, including free-roaming Malayan tapirs ... and Mekong giant catfish. Fun fact: It's the only Universal park in the ...

The country’s other highlight parks include Corcovado with its sloths, monkeys and tapirs, and the turtle ... People in a town called Sumpango fly giant circular paper kites – up to 18 metres ...