By comparing the mastodon's genetic make-up with existing genome sequences for modern elephants and the woolly mammoth, they have built up a family tree for the elephants. The tree has the African ...

Massive Megatherium sloths once stood as large as Asian elephants, ripping foliage off treetops with prehensile tongues like ...

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

We follow Utah State University scientist and UPR reporter Ryan Helcoski and UMP student Mirandah Mnisi as they scope out a ...

The elephant in the room, of course, is the global COVID-19 pandemic. Vacations are not happening the way they once were, as COVID-19 cases are rising in Florida and airlines continue to operate at ...

Berlin – Elephants at the Berlin Zoo finally got a chance to tuck into their Christmas dinner: A feast of donated pine trees. The zoo treated its elephants and some of its other animals to the trees ...

(Credit: Florida Highway Patrol) (Credit: Florida Highway Patrol) The BMW continued off the road and collided with a tree, killing one of Hernandez-Alonso’s passengers, and leaving him and the second ...

The elderly woman trampled to death by elephants in the Kruger National Park over the weekend has been identified as a Pretoria East resident. Petronella Margaretha Viljoen (68), better known as ...

You might struggle to believe that there is a state park in Missouri that rivals the magnificent Joshua Tree National Park in southern California. In fact, some of you might even think it’s impossible ...

He is the world’s real life Elephant Man who has spent the past 60 years battling to save the planet’s most delicate species of gentle giants from extinction. During his long career ...