When the ground started shaking, a herd of African elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park formed a protective barrier, ...

If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

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 ...

Elephants at San Diego Zoo Safari Park formed an alert circle to protect their young as a magnitude 5.2 earthquake hit the ...

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 ...

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 African elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park showed their "trust" for one another as the quake rocked Southern California.

"Our hypothesis of self-domestication in elephants has exciting potential for future research in other species", concludes Raviv. "It can inform our understanding of the evolution of prosocial ...

An unusual convoy is nearing Argentina's lush border with Brazil, after snaking through traffic-snarled roads for hours.

The team subsequently called African elephants by their names ... may be capable of abstract thought, and although elephant and human evolution diverged tens of millions of years ago, both ...

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.

Elephants at San Diego Zoo Safari Park formed an alert circle to protect their young as a magnitude 5.2 earthquake hit the region Monday morning.