Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The elephant is the largest existing land mammal on Earth, weighing anywhere from 4,000 to 10,000 pounds. There are three species ...

In countries such as South Sudan, the great herds have all but disappeared. But further south, conservation success mean increasing human-wildlife conflict ...

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 ...

1. Does recent research resolve once and for all whether there are two separate species of African elephant? 2. What are the conservation implications if there are two species? We would have to ...

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 ...

(CNN) — Elephants' wrinkles aren't just about age. In fact, the observation that baby elephants don't have wrinkles in their skin led researchers to wonder why and how these form. What they discovered ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A study of the African bush elephant's vast network of deep wrinkles has found it is intricately designed to help the animals keep their cool, fight off parasites and defend against ...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY • Grant’s Farm will no longer keep elephants at its south St. Louis County attraction after the deaths of four elephants there this year — three of which happened within the past two ...

African Bush Elephants can weigh 13,000 pounds. You don’t want to get on their bad side, especially when they’re protecting their young. In a recent matchup of elephant vs. truck, the elephant won. It ...

The genetic analysis detected 367 different plant species across the samples. More remarkably, individual elephants showed ...