It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

Elephants are vital to ecosystems. Learn interesting facts and how WWF works to protect them across Africa and Asia.

African Savanna Elephants are the largest living land animals. Henry, shot in Angola in 1955, weighed 24,000 pounds. Henry is displayed at the Smithsonian Museum since 1959. Largest Elephant in the ...

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The new footage marks the first time the species has been photographed or filmed in Senegal's Niokolo-Koba National Park in five years Panthera and Senegal’s National Parks Directorate (DPN) An ...

Human hunting was the key factor in the loss of dozens of elephant-like species in the past 2 million years, according to an AI-assisted analysis of thousands of fossils. The extinction rate of these ...

The species of elephant, important in helping rainforests to regenerate, is notoriously hard to assess since they are spread across remote, dense jungles in 22 African countries.

This study was funded in part by the Australian Research Council and other international funding bodies. Madagascar’s extinct elephant birds – the largest birds ever to have lived – have captured ...