African savanna elephants are the biggest elephant species. They can grow to be 10 to 13 feet (3 to 4 meters) tall, and they weigh 4 to 7 tons (3,600 to 6,40 kg) — about as much as a fully ...

An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on Earth—entered the National Geographic ...

Both elephant species exhibit sexual dimorphism, though ... as evidenced by Tanzania, a country with one of the largest elephant populations at more than 109,000 that declined 60 percent the 43,000 in ...

These tools also played a key role in helping paleontologists identify the species ... that the elephant belonged to Palaeoloxodon, or straight-tusked elephants, among the largest land mammals ...

The largest land mammal on Earth, elephants embody the African landscape ... and savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) — Africa's two elephant species are still being managed as one. Forest and ...

A new study confirms what has been long suspected: elephant populations are being decimated to the point that the survival of the species in Central Africa is now in question ... when it held Africa’s ...

He was a wonderful elephant and an ambassador for his species. He fathered many calves ... two weeks after another 50-years-old tusker, the largest bull in the Kasigau Corridor Project area ...

Show more Elephants are the largest living land mammal and today our plant is home to three species: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant, and the Asian elephant. But a hundred ...

Normally, I would expect to find elephants in Africa or Asia, but Tennessee happens to be home to one of the largest elephant safe-havens in ...