A wide variety of the exotic animals evolved on Earth over the past 60 million years Riley Black - Science Correspondent The tusks of ancient elephants came in a variety of shapes and sizes.

Because of poaching problems, some wildlife authorities have resorted to removing the horns of rhinos to eliminate the reason they're poached in the first place. As it turns out, evolution came up ...

Elephants that live near farms are more daring than their deep-forest counterparts, and that behavior could be the key to helping people and elephants get along. That's the central finding of new ...

Elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park appear to call to each other with individual names using low, complex "rumbles," a study has found. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Teddy practiced his balance before stretching his body in a downward-dog pose during a yoga session last week. Afterward, he rewarded himself with a tasty treat. The yoga session didn’t feature mats, ...

When an earthquake strikes, humans duck and cover. But elephants get in formation. African elephants at the San Diego Zoo instinctively formed a protective circle around its youngest family members in ...

The crates containing the elephants were carefully picked up by a crane and transferred onto the lorry Two Asian elephants have been transported across the country as part of a conservation breeding ...

Ojai, a city in southern California, passed an ordinance this week to become the first city in the nation to recognize the legal rights of a nonhuman animal: the elephant. The legislation was sparked ...