Conservationists Kristine and late-husband Doug Tompkins helped establish more than a dozen national parks in Chile and Argentine. But Tompkins wants to do more than preserve and protect the animals ...

Recent giant anteater sightings in Rio Grande do Sul state indicate the species has returned to southern Brazil, where it had been considered extinct for more than a century. Experts concluded that ...

The world's largest rodents, capybaras, are returning to the San Antonio Zoo for the first time since 2018, and they've got their roommates lined up: giant anteaters. The zoo announced Tuesday that ...

Anteaters are fascinating creatures. They have long snouts, sticky tongues, and powerful claws that help them dig up their favorite food: ants and termites. But did you know that they also have a ...

At first glance, an anteater looks like a creature imagined by someone mixing parts from different animals. It has a long, narrow snout, a tongue that seems far too long to be real, shaggy fur, ...