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GRAY — The most fully articulated skeleton of a juvenile tapir yet to be unearthed made its way from the ground to the research lab Tuesday, as a team of East Tennessee State University ...
A rare find at the Fossil Site in Gray, could lead to more answers about what life was like for animals in the area as far back as seven million ...
A Species Thought Lost Returns. For more than 100 years, the South American tapir (Tapirus terrestris) had been missing from the Atlantic Forest, a once vast biome now reduced to fragments due to ...
Scientific American’s “Food” issue. Also: “The Tapir Scientist” tries to save nature’s shyest loners.