Indonesian authorities rescued a critically endangered baby Sumatran elephant after it became separated from its mother at a ...

Many creatures have imprinted on our hearts — and even a city sidewalk — for making their homes near ours. Here’s a look back ...

Blue whales can eat as much as 6 tons (5.4 metric tons) — about the same weight as an African elephant — of krill every day .

In 1985, construction workers discovered the bones of massive animals that once ruled Austin, in one of the city's most ...

The rough emerald, named Insofu -"elephant" in the local Bemba language - has since yielded 850 carats of gem quality emeralds, the first of which now feature in a 15-piece ensemble of necklaces, ...

This is the heart-stopping moment a wild elephant nearly rammed a motorcycle ... by the motorcycle rider and tried to hit him with its tusks in self-defence. Fortunately, the rider was not hurt.

Far from the well-trodden tourism path, the Central African nation promises unparalleled access to nature at its wildest.

As crews began foundation work 20 feet below Congress Avenue, they came across the bony remains of mastodons – elephant-like creatures ... larger and had longer tusks. They roamed North America ...

The OCT’s headquarters are located in the remote town of Seronga, accessible much of the time only by 4×4 truck ... in the middle of it.” The elephant’s tusks, which will hang on Sitterle ...

So, by looking carefully at mammoth and Asian elephant DNA, the researchers coould ... while the females were slightly smaller. Curved tusks were up to 16 feet (5m) long and their underbellies ...

When looking at an African elephant and an Asian elephant side-by-side, you can really tell the differences in their head shapes and tusks. African elephants generally ... August has been writing a ...