The National Museum of Natural History recently spruced up its iconic African elephant mount, which has greeted visitors since 1959 ...

Here we celebrate ten examples from the depths of elephant history to highlight the fantastic forms these beasts have taken throughout the Age of Mammals. If you saw Phosphatherium in life ...

Protecting remaining strongholds and minimising human impacts on food sources will be crucial to avoiding further population decline of this remarkable creature.

DESCRIPTION: Forest elephants are the smaller of the two African elephant species. They also have straighter, thinner tusks, more rounded ears and differently shaped skulls. Both elephant species ...

influential elephants and even a tasty elephant. I can’t list them all (that would be a mammoth task) but below are what I reckon are the most interesting elephants in London’s history.

If so, did residents have success in hiring them before drilling wells or in finding any other items? During extensive research of newspaper archives and local history books, I went down a rabbit hole ...

This history was particularly dynamic after the height of the last Ice Age 21,000 years ago. The planet started warming then, which led to dramatic ecological shifts. Elephant seals likely ...

How can these discoveries be reconciled with the widespread view that the post-Temple remnant of Jews in the Holy Land was ...

An elephant who once had an infamous owner has ... and museums which teach visitors about African history and culture. Escobar built a Spanish colonial house, sculpture park, and zoo on the ...

In my previous Baby Boomer Memories column, I shared how my quest to write about dowsing nearly 25 years ago led me down a rabbit hole. Back then I ended up with a story of the 5-ton male elephant ...