Have you ever heard the expression “If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it just may be a duck?" Although this saying has some truth to it, we should also remember ...

Biologists have discovered a new species of peccary, a member of the pig family, in the basin of the Rio Aripuanã in the south-eastern Amazon region. The divergence time from the already known peccary ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – An embattled Dutch scientist claims to have discovered a new species of peccary, a pig-like creature measuring over four feet, nearly twice the size of other Amazon peccaries.

With just 3,000 of the pig-like animals still roaming the Gran Chaco region, a community conservation effort in Argentina is fighting for its future The Chacoan peccary is so elusive that scientists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Javelina also known as collared peccary, are medium-sized animals that look similar to a wild ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A multinational team of scientists met to discuss the current status and future of the white-lipped peccary, a pig-like mammal that lives in ...

Yes. You've correctly named the Chacoan peccary (Catagonus wagneri). The Chacoan peccary looks a lot like a big, hairy pig. And it grunts and snorts like a pig, too. Yet while the peccary shares a ...

Populations of white-lipped peccaries, a 'new world' pig-like species usually found throughout Central American tropical forests, are in freefall, new research finds. White-lipped peccaries have ...

The Chacoan peccary looks a lot like a big, hairy pig. And it grunts and snorts like a pig, too. Yet while the peccary shares a common ancestry with the pig, the two animals are very different, both ...