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 ...

The larger sloths didn’t do much tree climbing, at risk of falling to their deaths. Instead, they survived by being ...

By analyzing 50,000-year old DNA from Neanderthals, for example, we now know that some ... the mammoth’s closest living relative, the Asian elephant. Colossal proposes to do this to a small ...

Among Asian elephants, for example, a long history of hunting for ivory—as well as removing tusked elephants from the wild for labor—likely helped contribute to higher tuskless numbers there.

Asian small-clawed otters are top predators in wetlands and mangroves. Image by Cloudtail the Snow Leopard via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). In their study, the researchers analyzed DNA samples from ...

Scientists have analyzed ancient DNA and compared more than 400 fossils from 17 natural history museums to figure out how and why extinct sloths got so big.

Each elephant also requires two dedicated mahouts to care for it. According to the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation, Nepal has between 255 and 265 wild elephants and150 ...

A revolutionary brand has brought dire wolves back from extinction, backed by George R.R. Martin, Peter Jackson, and real-life Jurassic Park science.

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

To test that theory, Reiss and two colleagues from Emory University placed mirrors in the yard where three Asian elephants live ... Hauser explains. For example, monkeys have shown signs of ...