Researchers found that the animals are capable of using their trunks to make a range of gestures that express their ...

Elephants weren’t always the gentle giants we know today – their ancestors were some of the strangest creatures to walk the Earth. In this video, we explore the bizarre evolutionary journey of ...

Elephants are among the largest mammals on Earth. They are loved by many for their intelligence and varied personalities.

Signals used by elephants to manage competitive play sessions provide hints to the roots of empathy in social mammals.

African elephants. Genetic research has raised the possibility that the two classic forms of elephant in Africa are separate species rather than subspecies of Loxodonta africana. Museum research has ...

That is, until they were all rapidly replaced with proboscideans with long, flexible trunks instead: mammoths, mastodons, and our modern elephants.What suddenly made long jaws such a liability? Well ...

The elephant trunk plays a critical role in communication. While people assume the trumpet-like noises that we hear from their trunks are their means of communication, that is usually not the case.