Populations of the African forest and savanna elephant have declined sharply. The populations of Africa's elephants are now in more danger than they ever have been. The African forest elephant is now ...

BELA-BELA, South Africa (AP) — Tuesday is World Elephant Day. Here are five things to know about the largest land animals on our planet. Tell them apart by their ears There are three species of ...

The elephant is the largest existing land mammal on Earth, weighing anywhere from 4,000 to 10,000 pounds. There are three species of elephants: the African bush elephant (also known as the African ...

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

An extinct species of giant elephant that used to roam across much of Europe and Asia was more closely related to modern African forest elephants than forest elephants are to modern African bush ...

With African elephants endangered, a UCLA-led study says their decline could ripple from the rainforest to the concert stage—revealing a critical link between the threatened species and pianos and ...

In 2019, a beloved African forest elephant named Ousmane was thought to be only one of five to 10 elephants left living in Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba National Park. Ousmane, who was named after one of the ...

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 National ...

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 ...