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 ...

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

The following is a script of "The Secret Language of Elephants," which aired on January 3, 2010. Bob Simon is the correspondent. For two decades, a group of wild African elephants has been watched ...

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 ...

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 ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) - Two new elephants are gracing the grounds of the Little Rock Zoo after being brought in from the Niabi Zoo in Coal City, Illinois. Niabi lost their zoo accreditation from the ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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.