There is something genuinely disorienting about standing in the middle of the Arizona desert and reaching out to scratch a ...

If you've never seen a capybara before, you're missing out. The Central and South American natives are quite a sight to behold, thanks to their short legs and long torsos. In fact, these large ...

Edinburgh Zoo has celebrated a rare and heartwarming milestone: the birth of a capybara pup, the first born at the facility ...

It's one thing to get a goldfish because your daughter begs for one. It's quite another to end up with a hundred-pound rodent who has more than 2,700 Twitter followers. Caplin Rous is a capybara.

Before axolotls were everywhere, the “It” stuffed animal was a sloth, and before that it was a llama, and before that it was a narwhal. Now there’s a new kid in town: the capybara. The South American ...