No, this photo-bombing pachyderm is not an apparition, a phantasm or a spooky specter. He is the only African forest elephant to be spotted — via remote trail cam — in Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature now lists the African forest elephant as critically endangered and the African savanna elephant as endangered. Both species have experienced ...

Videos show how African elephants may be the first nonhuman species to use vocal name-like identifiers for each other, suggesting "the capacity for some degree of symbolic thought," researchers said.

Miniature African Forest Elephants Could Be Extinct in 10 Years Ivory poachers slashed the population of the small elephants by 62 percent in the past decade—future losses at those rates will ...

What is the African elephant? African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth. They are slightly larger than their Asian cousins and can be identified by their larger ears that look ...

The number of African forest elephants has fallen by more than 86% since 1990, while the population of savanna elephants dropped by more than 60% over the last 50 years, according to the IUCN ...

A mural proposed for downtown Scranton would pay homage to Nay Aug Park’s late elephants, depicting them free from the bounds of a zoo in a piece of public art that will also portray the city ...

A bump in the elephant brain stem pointed scientists to the wrinkles on their trunks and the role those folds play in the animal’s life.

Logging is threatening Omo Forest Reserve in southern Nigeria, which is home to endangered wildlife like African elephants.

The mural will be on the newly build elephant barn that faces Forest Avenue. Cox's murals got on the zoo's radar because he did one across the street in Avondale, on the White Oak Townhomes.