they have built up a family tree for the elephants. The tree has the African elephant diverging from both the Asian elephant and the mammoth about 7.6 million years ago. Then, at 6.7 million years ago ...

Africa needs its forests for sustainable development, poverty reduction, food security, and to make the continent more ...

Biotech company Colossal Biosciences made headlines in April 2025 after claiming it had "successfully restored … the dire ...

Mammoths and elephants, both belonging to the Elephantidae family, showcase distinct adaptations to different environments.

According to National Geographic, this has resulted in elephants “evolving to lose their tusks.” African forest elephants ... to walk in is bereft of any trees, plants, or other foliage ...

The group then filed similar papers in California to try to free the Fresno Chaffee Zoo 's three African elephants but a judge ruled against the group.

African elephants are the largest land animals on earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless ...

African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless ...

The ethogram has taken on added urgency with the recent International Union for Conservation of Nature listing of African savanna and forest elephants as separate and endangered species.

In northern Kenya, an elephant orphanage turns a pandemic challenge into a win—for the calves, the community, and the land. At the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in northern Kenya, orphaned calves ...

The Forest Department has launched efforts to expand profiling of wild elephants to all forest divisions with elephant presence, data of which will be used for mitigating negative interactions ...