Elephants are the largest land animals worldwide, used in tourism in several countries, and are often gentle to humans ...

The increase in greenhouse gases in the environment seems driven by a one-two punch to the environment. Overall, human activity is a driving factor in the increase in carbon in the atmosphere, ...

The largest elephant ever officially recorded was an individual male African savanna elephant named 'Henry,' or the Fénykövi ...

African forest elephants, which inhabit the dense rainforests of west and central Africa, are smaller than their African savanna elephant cousins. Poaching for ivory and loss of habitat have led to a ...

At one time, poaching was the biggest threat to elephants in Africa. As these majestic creatures were slaughtered by the ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

Herds of woolly mammoth once roamed the span of the Northern Hemisphere, from the British Isles across the Bering land bridge to the eastern shores of North America. Then, about 4000 years ago, the ...

In heavily forested Gabon, elephants are increasingly wandering into villages and destroying crops, angering the local population who demand the power to stop the critically endangered animals in ...