(Steve Stringer Photography/Moment/Getty Images) Which footprint is bigger? An elephant's or a human's? It depends on how you ...

A confrontation among elephants at Kenya's Umani Springs ended with a broken tusk after eight wild bulls gathered to pursue ...

The grudging release of previously undisclosed mortality data from the Kruger National Park offers a rare glimpse into how ...

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What is the African elephant? African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth. They are slightly larger than their Asian cousins and can be identified by their larger ears that look somewhat ...

"It's like watching a tank trying to be stealthy." ...

South Africa’s elephant strategy rightly celebrates heritage, culture and coexistence. But it’s proposals for adaptive management and flexibility could threaten what protection elephants actually ...

Joymala, Kaziranga's legendary patrol elephant, has died at 66 after serving the national park for 34 years. Discover how she became a symbol of rhino conservation and why patrol elephants remain ...

Elephants crossing a road in Botswana. poco_bw / Getty Images Addressing threats to elephants requires public and political will to take action. As elephant conservation relies on international ...

After 10 days of public voting and $58,892.70 raised for conservation, the Asian elephant calf at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute is named Linh Mai [LIN-my], which ...

The start-up Colossal Biosciences aims to use gene-editing technology to bring back the woolly mammoth and other extinct species. Recently, the company achieved major milestones: last year, they ...