It’s not hard to understand why capys have a cultlike following on Instagram and TikTok. I fell for the giant rodent decades ...

Regardless of their enjoyment of the water, they are not fish ... Clergymen in Venezuela wondered if perhaps the capybara ...

This is the shocking moment a woman was attacked by a capybara while swimming in Colombia ... gnawed at her head before she went under the water. The woman's cries could be heard as the large ...

It was a video of a capybara in a swimming pool, seemingly treading water like a human does, feet down and arms circling.

The Pantanal, Brazil The Pantanal in Brazil, an astounding wetland region, stretches over an enormous area, making it the ...

Gary Shteyngart on the rodent winning hearts. Plus: putting a skeptic in charge of science; Michael Crichton’s lessons in ...

"The red bow tie is such a fun touch for Capy," says millennial Wang Zhirong, scrambling to take the perfect shot of one of ...

The capybara – a semi-aquatic South American ... Among the oddest she has seen: a stuffed version of a water bear, a type of microorganism also known as a moss piglet or a tardigrade.

The Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium and its visitors are mourning the loss of a "guest favorite" capybara. Ripple, a 12-year-old capybara who arrived to the zoo in 2017, had to be euthanized on Dec. 29.