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

By the mid-19th century, however, experts recognized that Deinotherium was a huge fossil elephant, a hulking herbivore that spread through Africa and Eurasia between 1 million and 15 million years ...

More information: Deming Yang et al, Strontium isotope mapping of elephant enamel supports an integrated microsampling-modeling workflow to reconstruct herbivore migrations, Communications Biology ...

Which elephant-sized herbivore roamed on Earth during the late Triassic period? For answers, and more interesting questions, take this quiz! Updated - January 24, 2019 06:52 pm IST ...

Forget what you’ve seen in pretty much every cartoon containing an elephant - they don’t actually eat peanuts, and we don’t really know where the rumour started. They’re a bit too small ...

An international team of scientists conduct an unprecedented examination of Jumbo’s bones to uncover answers 130 years after the elephant superstar’s death in Canada. Jumbo, the most famous ...

In Sri Lanka, a charming elephant cheekily halts traffic for treats. This is an extract from a new episode of Asia, a seven-part series presented by Sir David Attenborough and dedicated to our ...