If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

The elephants trunk is their nose, it's extra long and has many purposes such as: drinking, reaching for food, breathing, and they even use it as snorkel when swimming. There are three species of ...

African savanna elephants weigh nearly twice as much as their forest counterparts, yet many have considered them merely different populations of the same species. But new genetic evidence finally puts ...

On top of this, loss of habitat, human-elephant conflict, and political instability provide significant long-term challenges to their survival. Importantly, despite compelling genetic research ...

Elephants have long captured human imagination in art and culture, and scientists have long sought to understand them. Scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) study African ...

African elephants are the largest living land animals and need to eat hundreds of pounds of food every day. They are ...

This research provides the most comprehensive assessment of trends in the two species of elephants in Africa: the forest elephant and the savanna elephant. The results were eye opening.

At the same time, it is officially identifying African elephants as two distinct species: savanna elephants and forest elephants. The reclassification — part of an update to IUCN’s Red List of ...