Elephants weren’t always the gentle giants we know today – their ancestors were some of the strangest creatures to walk the ...

This gradual uplift of land enabled the early ancestors of animals such as giraffes, elephants, rhinoceroses, cheetahs, and even humans, to roam between Africa and Asia. The appearance of the land ...

Mammoths and elephants, both belonging to the Elephantidae family, showcase distinct adaptations to different environments.

Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus greatly exceeded the size of modern African elephants. Adults grew to around four meters tall at the shoulder and weighed about 10 tonnes. In a study recently published ...

Mkhaya, a seven-year-old elephant at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, can rest easy knowing her family has her back. When a 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck the area on Monday, Mkhaya's herd wasted ...

But a key question is whether such animals could survive if they roamed the Arctic tundra as their ancestors did thousands of years ago. Elephants live in complex societies governed by social ...

Corey Favino/Elephant Family USA and Newport Restoration Foundation Their journey began in the forested region of the Nilgiri Hills in the south of India. Each statue is modeled from a real ...

This gradual uplift of land enabled the early ancestors of animals such as giraffes, elephants, rhinoceroses, cheetahs, and even humans, to roam between Africa and Asia. The appearance of the land ...