Installation view of The Secret World of Elephants at the American Museum of Natural History showing how elephants' ears cool them. (all photos AX Mina/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) Until I ...

Elephants made sure to keep their calves safe during a scary situation. When a 5.2 magnitude earthquake hit San Diego on April 14, elephants at the city’s zoo quickly sprung into action. As the San ...

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Tolstoy used to be a formidable elephant: Massive in size, revered by the young bulls, and with tusks so long they touched the ground. When he was alive, Tolstoy had been more than just some random ...

A new study from an interdisciplinary German research collaboration, led by the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), reveals the secret to the ...

A desert matriarch leads her herd through The Hoanib, an ephemeral seasonal river in Namibia. Laura Manske: You’ve been filming elephants your entire adult life, ever since, at age 17, you became a ...

Elephants are fascinating animals, and their trunks are even more impressive once you realize everything they can do. This long, flexible combination of nose and upper lip has over 40,000 muscles ...

African elephant populations are sometimes thought to differ only by the location of the animals, but, evolutionarily speaking, forest and savannah elephants are as separate genetically as Asian ...

An elephant in Kenya has given birth to a set of twins, a conservation group said on Friday, a rare event for the planet's largest land mammals. Save the Elephants said that the twins, both female, ...

Baby elephants are great at making playtime fun. They're a lot like human toddlers—they love to get dirty, splash in puddles, and turn any stick they find into the perfect toy. These giant, majestic ...