Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Family of African Bush Elephants taking a mud bath in Tsavo East National Park, Kenya.© I, Mgiganteus, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute's new Asian elephant calf has a name! Linh Mai [LIN-my] edged ...

It's been thousands of years since the woolly mammoths that used to roam the Northern Hemisphere went extinct. However, their former habitat is still ...

A decades-long quest reveals the remarkable truth about how these giant creatures have remained so elusive. The ghost elephants that live in the highlands of Angola behave like almost no others on ...

A female Asian elephant calf was born Feb. 2 to mother Nhi Linh and father Spike at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. NOTE: B-roll and photos of the calf will be ...

It’s a girl! An elephant gave birth at the National Zoo on Monday, February 2, marking the first time in almost 25 years the zoo has welcomed a baby Asian elephant. There’s an abundance of bad news in ...

WASHINGTON D.C. (WTOC) - The Smithsonian National Zoo is celebrating the birth of an endangered Asian elephant for the first time in about 25 years, according to the zoo. The female calf was born ...

The female calf, whose name has not yet been decided, was born around 1:15 a.m. Monday, Feb. 2 to 12-year-old mother Nhi Linh and 44-year-old father Spike. This is Nhi Linh’s first offspring. Brandie ...

Washington, D.C., has something to trumpet about overnight after welcoming a very small and very special new resident. A baby Asian elephant was born in the early hours Monday at the Smithsonian’s ...

The southern elephant seal population in South Africa has seen its conservation status improve from near threatened to least concern, with a recent assessment citing the absence of serious threats to ...