A fossilized elephant skull found in the Kashmir Valley is reshaping how scientists understand an ancient giant’s past.

Researchers analyzed fossils and DNA to get a big-picture view of sloth evolution and determine what drove their immense size ...

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, Asian ...

African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which ...

African elephants are the largest land animals on earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which ...

A trunk-curling elephant in musthPascal is in full musth. He is at a mud wallow and has been engaging in bouts of trunk-curling. This short video from Amboseli National Park, Kenya, is part of The ...

Arachnophobes, look away now. This mechanized monstrosity was first introduced in 1994’s Doom II, combining a giant pulsing ...

A mother elephant's heartbreaking vigil beside her calf, killed in a road accident, has drawn widespread sorrow and outrage online. The tragic incident took place on 11 May, Mother's Day, along the ...

A young elephant in the Malaysian state of Perak was killed in an accident with a lorry on May 11 while it was crossing a highway with its mother, drawing widespread sympathy after a video showed ...