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 they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless, Asian ...

"De-extinction" takes center stage as environmentalists express dismay over erosion of the Endangered Species Act ...

Today, both species of elephants face a range of threats. Habitat loss, human-elephant conflict, and poaching are among the most significant challenges, leading to Asian and African ... human and ...

A judge denied a request to temporarily stop the LA Zoo from moving its two Asian elephants ... going to evaluate other potential claims. For example, a habeas petition, which historically ...

Research reveals key brain differences between Asian and African elephants, offering insights into intelligence, behavior, ...

Scientists have recently shed some light on exactly why elephants, one of the biggest animals on the planet, paradoxically ...

Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, contrary to received wisdom, our species has undergone profound ...

In recent months, the legal, political and zoological drama playing out over the fate of the zoo’s Asian elephants has escalated. After two aging members of the herd had to be euthanized ...

of Zoos and Aquariums standards that require that any accredited zoo have at least three Asian elephants. The options were to either add more elephants to the exhibit or relocate Billy and Tina.