1. Does recent research resolve once and for all whether there are two separate species of African elephant? 2. What are the conservation implications if there are two species? We would have to ...

There are thousands more endangered African forest elephants than previously thought, thanks to a new counting method using the DNA extracted from their dung, a study showed on Thursday. The species ...

Over 45,000 species are now threatened with extinction - 1,000 more than last year - according to an international conservation organisation. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) ...

As of July , about 198 wild elephants were reported dead over the first seven months of the year in Sri Lanka. The cumulative ...

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 ...

Corra's birth is significant for the endangered species — and offers a learning experience for Walt Disney World visitors, too Walt Disney World On Thursday, Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom marked ...

Elephant societies respond to death in ways that look uncannily similar to our own reactions. Here’s why it has researchers ...

What suddenly made long jaws such a liability? Well it looks like we can thank a changing climate for the evolution of the elephant’s trunk. Eons is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App ...

Rozie the Asian elephant, who lives at the Albuquerque BioPark and is part of an endangered species of elephant, gave birth to a stillborn calf early Tuesday morning. The death of Rozie’s calf was a ...