Ahead of Linh Mai’s public debut, keepers said another female Asian elephant is acting as a stand-in mom to the 2-month-old ...

Scientists have developed a new way to fight gum disease without wiping out the mouth’s helpful bacteria—a major shift from traditional treatments. Instead of killing everything, this targeted ...

A professor of anthropology explores how early hominids ate prehistoric elephants to survive.

This harmless elephant safety cartoon from an ethical sanctuary in Thailand has been psychologically destabilizing me since ...

"Elephants in the Fog," a Nepalese thriller slated for the Cannes Film Festival, has been boarded by sales company Best ...

The shipments were rushed to the National Zoo overnight, packed in dry ice for the 400-mile trip. A few pounds in weight, the containers went immediately into freezers until the contents could be ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Elephant Valley at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park opened to the public today following three and a half years of construction. The new environment features a herd of eight ...

Werner Herzog’s new documentary about the hunt for elephants in Angola focuses less on the animals and more on the pursuers. By Lisa Kennedy When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Veterinary Services Laboratory confirmed the outbreak late Tuesday evening. This marks the first outbreak of ...

The southern elephant seal’s conservation status in South Africa has improved from near threatened to least concern, with experts citing four decades without major threats to its breeding colonies on ...

An elephant has about 1,000 whiskers on its trunk. Basile Morin via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-4.0 Elephants are famous for their dexterous trunks, which the animals use to eat, drink, trumpet and ...

Archaeologists say a 2,200-year-old specimen is the first direct evidence of how the Carthaginian war machine used the giant mammals in the Punic Wars. By Franz Lidz A 2,200-year-old bone unearthed ...