You may be seeing news reports this week of the discovery of a giant peccary (Pecari maximus) in Brazil’s River Aripuana basin, which is part of the Amazon system. See examples here and here.

Cryptomundo reported on this finding on July 24, 2006, in my blog “New Giant Peccary.”

However, due to the research findings being published in the scientific journal Bonner zoologische Beiträge on 29 October 2007, the giant peccary is in the news again.

It is the same one, and not a new “giant peccary” species. It, nevertheless, remains a remarkable discovery.