A creature that lived 250 million years ago with elephant-like tusks and a "turtle-like beak" is the oldest-known creature to hibernate in order to survive, a newly published study has found. The ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Happy the elephant may be intelligent and deserving of compassion, but she cannot be considered a person being illegally confined to the Bronx Zoo, New York’s top court ruled ...

A baby elephant in Thailand has gone viral for adorably attempting to hide behind a light pole after being caught snacking on sugarcane in a field in Chiang Mai, located in the north of the country.

A safari operator in South Africa recently spotted a pink elephant calf playing in a waterhole — and no, he wasn’t watching Disney’s Dumbo. The “extremely rare” African elephant was “bathing in the ...

Recall the folk tale of the blind men and the elephant—a trio of blind men come across an elephant and try to describe it to ...

Elephants and hippos are two of the largest and fiercest mammals to roam Africa. They’re both capable of scaring off or even killing lions, the supposed kings of the jungle. What happens if an ...

Elephants are land animals that have roamed the earth for nearly 56 million years! And though they are mighty creatures who appear domineering, giant and imposing, they are quite peaceful, generous, ...

A teenage elephant named Kanakota died from exhaustion after giving tourists rides. thepetitionsite.com A teenage elephant named Kanakota reportedly died from exhaustion recently after giving three ...

A news report on elephant seal bulls “surfing up onto the sand” for the molting season at a famous California rookery reminded me of an extraordinary event that occurred last July in Mexico. The ...

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