Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the clip, an elephant uses brute strength (and a little engineering) to topple a tree and bring high leaves within reach—an ...

A detailed view of an African elephant chewing a broken tree branch. The image shows the animal’s textured skin, strong tusks, and natural feeding behavior in its habitat. Key revelations from Tuesday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Metabolic rate doesn't increase proportionally with body size. It scales to body mass raised to the three-quarter power, a ...

Imagine a creature nearly twice the size of a modern African elephant, which can weigh up to 6,000 kg. This was Elephas (Paleoxodon) recki, a prehistoric titan that roamed the landscape of what is now ...

A bull male elephant is seen meticulously dismantling an electric fence inside Yala National Park in Sri Lanka. Elephants are often herded into parks to keep them from eating the crops of farmers, but ...

In the largest genomic mapping of Africa's elephants to date, an international team of researchers shows that elephant history is defined by the ability to move across large distances and exchange ...

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 ...