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

Straight-tusked elephants were some of the largest land mammals ever to have existed, but no one has been quite sure just how many of the now-extinct species existed throughout Africa, Europe and Asia ...

Now imagine this oasis didn’t exist until a group of elephants, driven by thirst and determination, sculpted it from the parched ... Read more The post How Elephants Engineer Their Own Habitats ...

Indeed, Moss has shared so many experiences with elephants that she writes about them as virtually a first-person narrator of elephant life. Witness her description of the last hours of a 60-year ...

A young elephant "marks his territory" in front of a group of tourists, but what was the elephant really trying to ...

When a group of researchers set out to study the well-being of wild juvenile African savanna elephants in central Kenya, they had a theory: Orphaned elephants would be more stressed out than non ...

In both areas, you will find herds of the African savannah elephants that — according to a new study — have become the first animals outside of humans to give each other actual names.

Zimbabwe has announced that dozens of its elephants will be killed to control the population size and the meat from the carcasses will be distributed to people.

Despite this imposing size, the now-extinct straight-tusked elephants were routinely hunted and systematically butchered for their meat by Neanderthals, according to a new study of the remains of ...

Hunting the now extinct straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) was widespread among Neanderthals. This is the conclusion reached by a research team consisting of members of Johannes ...

Straight-tusked elephants went extinct at least 30,000 years ago; many factors were probably to blame, Dr. Roebroeks said, including predation, climate change, reduction in food availability and ...

The Elephants are the only team to hold a better head-to-head record against the Eagles, and their match-up on 18 January might likely determine the group winners.