BCE, two titans of the Hellenistic world clashed in one of the ancient world’s largest battles to decide the fate of ...

Xiangshan derives its name from its external shape (“xiang” means elephant in Chinese) and is located at the south-eastern section of Xinyi District. Its composition is mainly sandstone, akin to that ...

Lynch found his first taste of mainstream critical acceptance with his 1980 biographical account of the life of Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man. The film, which starred John Hurt and Anthony ...

David Lynch, the four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead, Wild at Heart, The Elephant Man and others who also created the ABC drama series Twin Peaks ...

A lone elephant’s fall into a 70-foot gorge in the Nilgiris is a heartbreaking reminder of the crisis facing India’s elephants. Shrinking habitats, rising conflicts, and vanishing corridors are ...

At Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda, crop-raiding by elephants and livestock predation can destroy the incomes of farmers and pastoralists. One solution that’s being implemented is ...

An expert on Asian elephants is sounding the alarm about “elephant sanctuaries” after a tourist was killed while visiting one in Thailand. Blanca Ojanguren García, 22, a law student at the ...

A bid by the Liberal government to ban zoos from keeping elephants and great apes has been quashed by the sudden halt of parliamentary proceedings, to the disappointment of animal-welfare advocates.

The picture of the Holy Father with the elephants inevitably evokes the memory of Annone, a majestic 4-year-old albino elephant from India, who five centuries ago was the pet of Pope Leo X and ...

Freshwater Animals Are More Fragile Than Thought, With Nearly a Quarter Threatened With Extinction, Study Finds Species in Lake Victoria, Lake Titicaca, Sri Lanka’s Wet Zone and the Western ...

Burial shafts from the same period, an extensive necropolis, and bronze coins from the Ptolemaic Period (the last dynasty of ancient Egypt) were also discovered. Abdel-Ghaffar Wagdy, Director General ...

A Spanish tourist was recently gored to death while bathing an elephant in Thailand. Photo / 123rf Humans have been interacting with elephants for centuries, said Hannah S Mumby, an assistant ...