Researchers have unveiled a miniature robot elephant with special 3D-printed "tissues" that allow for more complex and natural movements. A video shows the elephant grasp a flower with its trunk and ...

Ancient proteins from a 20-million-year-old rhino tooth are transforming our understanding of evolution. Researchers have ...

Ancient trackways in seabed mud show animals moved purposefully 10 million years before the Cambrian Explosion.

A fossilized rhino tooth reveals ancient proteins, pushing back the timeline of rhino evolution by millions of years.

Welcome to Año Nuevo State Park, California’s best-kept coastal secret hiding in plain sight near Pescadero. The first time I ventured to Año Nuevo, I arrived wearing boat shoes and designer ...

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Two tourists in Zambia were killed by an elephant Thursday while on a walking safari in a national park, police said.

For the first time in six years, an elephant was seen in Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba National Park. Grainy black-and-white footage shows Ousmane, a bull 35 to 40 years old named after a park ranger ...

A camera trap in Niokolo-Koba National Park captured rare video of what might be the last remaining elephant in Senegal.

Watch this observant elephant save this gazelle's life after it falls into a reservoir of water!

Scientists say they have calculated the date at which the African and the Asian elephant went their separate ways. The two elephant species diverged from a common ancestor some 7.6 million years ago, ...

What makes them particularly interesting to scientists is not just their unusual appearance but their evolutionary lineage, which genetic evidence suggests may be one of the oldest among living ...

In this video, I explain the difference between hominids and hominins, including the timeline of when the hominins split off from the hominids and the significance of this distinction. I cover the ...