Genetic research has raised the possibility that the two classic forms of elephant in Africa are separate species rather than subspecies of Loxodonta africana. Museum research has uncovered ...

We are studying the evolution of elephants and their relatives in Africa and in Europe over the past 20 million years. The transition from eating mainly soft leaves of trees to coarser leaves of ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The intricate web of cracks and crevices that gives African elephants their distinctive look is, in fact, an essential ...

Let’s dive into the incredible world of the elephant and learn all about their trunks. As the largest land mammal on the planet, it is no secret that African elephants are massive animals.

The clock is ticking to save Central Africa's forest elephants. Populations of the elusive elephants have plunged by around 80 percent inside one of the region's most important nature preserves.

WASHINGTON: African elephants call each other and respond ... For the study in Nature Ecology & Evolution, biologists used machine learning to detect the use of names in a sound library of savanna ...