It’s a gut-wrenching concept: drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds ...

The elephant trunk is a marvel of evolution. It combines the nose and upper lip, contains over 40,000 muscles, and has no ...

Elephant trunks have wrinkles since they are fetuses. When they're grown up, they have more wrinkles on their dominant side.

Kenya is relocating 50 elephants from a national reserve to a larger park after overpopulation overwhelmed the ecosystem, in ...

While elephants are known to have excellent memories, recalling waterholes or recognizing fellow elephants they haven’t seen ...

Kenya is relocating 50 elephants from a national reserve to a larger park after overpopulation overwhelmed the ecosystem, in ...

A new study provides the first scientific evidence that elephants can remember the scent of their keepers even after a long ...

The African bus Elephant is the planets largest animal. It can weigh as much as 7 metric tonnes and live to be seventy y ...

But now, researchers have discovered something even more intriguing about these extraordinary appendages — they wear their wrinkles like a roadmap, one that reveals whether an elephant favors ...

Are you left-handed or right-handed? Well, experts have found a way to work out if elephants are left or right 'trunked' by looking at the wrinkles in their skin. Elephants use their big trunks to ...

Flash floods quickly submerged the park. Mahouts, or elephant handlers, like Mr. Pasit, from other camps gathered and rushed to the scene by boats. They were able to rescue Apple, but two ...