"This is a new method to understand elephant behavior and help ensure their survival," says geochemist Thure Cerling, the study's principal author and a distinguished professor of geology-geophysics ...

A video of an elephant diving into a swimming pool has delighted the internet. A TikTok video posted by yexianggu shows an Asian elephant in a tank of water at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in southern ...

Not so long ago, the trumpeting of elephants could be heard across a great deal of our planet. Wrinkly-skinned giants did not only inhabit Africa and southern Asia, but roamed from prehistoric ...

Lewis had gourmet taste: Whenever the dry season browned grass in his Kenyan sanctuary, he’d abandon the other elephants and race 25 miles (40 kilometers) to the mountains — to raid farmers’ ...

A mammal’s waving tail forms a curtain of air that can discourage most mosquitoes from landing — and blows the pests away. Tail-wagging in mammals such as elephants has long been thought to ward off ...

A wide variety of the exotic animals evolved on Earth over the past 60 million years Riley Black - Science Correspondent The tusks of ancient elephants came in a variety of shapes and sizes.