Dogs may be man’s best friend, but they just might be this capybara’s best friend, too.

The giant rodent has become a national obsession long after the craze swept other countries.

Capybaras are the largest rodent species. An adult capybara weighs 60 to 174 pounds, depending on the sex. They measure 3.2 to 4.2 feet in length and measure 1.6 to 2 feet at shoulder height. The ...

Cinnamon escaped her enclosure at Hoo Zoo and Dinosaur World on Sept. 14 and has still not returned home Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and ...

Mysterious sightings in California have sparked a renewed interest in the "master of the grasses" After a capybara was sighted recently at a California wastewater treatment plant, the public's ...

TikTok user @_nik.sabrina was visiting 99 Wonderland Park, a night wildlife park in Kuala Lumpur, and was casually filming ...

Five capybara pups born at the Cape May County Zoo in November 2025 now have names. Although their mother Marigold shares her name with a flower, the capybara keepers chose a different theme for her ...

COEUR d’ALENE, Idaho – A new capybara experience is coming to Coeur d’Alene. The team behind Big Red’s Barn is planning to ...