Scientists knew almost nothing about how ebony trees, used for guitars and piano keys, grow. A new study reveals the secret ingredient — elephants.

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 ...

BELA-BELA, South Africa — Tuesday is World Elephant Day. Here are five things to know about the largest land animals on our planet. There are three species of elephants: the African savanna or bush ...

A study reveals that African elephants communicate using intentional gestures to ask for food, similar to ape communication.

Have you ever wondered what the world’s largest land animal might be? While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and some marine life (blue whales) might be heavier, one animal stands alone ...

Shankar, the lone African elephant at Delhi's zoo who spent much of his life in isolation, refused food on Wednesday and ...

MILWAUKEE - The Milwaukee County Zoo announced that African savanna elephant Ruth was humanely euthanized Saturday morning, ...

African elephants use "names" to communicate with each other in the same way that humans do, researchers have discovered. A new study, carried out by Colorado State University scientists who analyzed ...

African elephants are known to recognize groups of humans, to test electric fences with their tusks to avoid injury, and (of course) can remember paths to resources passed down to them decades earlier ...

Shankar, Delhi Zoo’s only African elephant, breathed his last on Wednesday. The 30-year-old tusker had been living in ...

Kept chained during musth, Shankar spent years alone after companion Bombai’s death. Zoo was seeking a mate for him before ...