The National Zoo in Washington, D.C., just welcomed a newborn Asian elephant calf. Asian Elephants are listed as endangered due to habitat loss, poaching, and disease. It marks the first Asian ...

SAN DIEGO — Before we see elephants at Elephant Valley in the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, we come face to face with destruction, only the wreckage is beautiful. A long, winding path takes guests around ...

The southern elephant seal’s conservation status in South Africa has improved from near threatened to least concern, with experts citing four decades without major threats to its breeding colonies on ...

The elephants are hitting the road again. An exhibit featuring 100 life-sized Indian elephant sculptures, titled “The Great Elephant Migration,” will leave the city’s Meatpacking District on Sunday, ...

Young elephants have a lot to learn—what to eat, what to avoid, how to behave around others. When they grow up around their mother and aunts, their development into well-behaved adults may seem ...

Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered an elephant bone from 2,200 years ago, and they believe it belonged to an animal that served as a “war machine” in an army sent to invade the Roman Republic.

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Los Angeles Zoo has announced that its last two Asian elephants, Billy and Tina, will be moved to a larger, more naturalistic sanctuary at the Tulsa Zoo in Oklahoma, marking the ...

A painting by Henri-Paul Motte depicts Carthaginians using elephants during the Battle of Zama in North Africa, which Rome won, ending the Second Punic War. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In 2019 ...

A bone from an elephant foot discovered under a fallen wall in southern Spain may be the first tangible proof that Hannibal really did march war elephants through Europe, reports the BBC.