NPR's Short Wave talks about elephants' sniffing abilities, the remarkable migration of painted lady butterflies and a ...

The death of a well-known wild animal is an odd kind of news. It is intimate, because so many people feel they have met the ...

One of Africa’s last remaining “Super Tuskers” has passed away. Officials from the Amboseli National Park reported that Craig ...

It?s time for everyone in Baltimore to learn what life is like for a female African elephant. Why, you ask? Because Dolly and Anna, the two African elephants at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, will be ...

While you might think that big cats are the kings of the savannah, it turns out that hooved animals are just as scared of elephants as predators like leopards—but we don't know why. When researchers ...

Elephants thrive in grasslands, savannahs, and forest areas where the weather is usually hot and dry. In order to protect their babies from the sun, adult elephants use their giant trunks to shower ...

Elephants are known for being very intelligent, but you may not know that they are fast, too. And it's a good thing that they are after watching this video that @National Geographic shared at the end ...

Elephant Nature Park in Thailand is scrambling to evacuate many of its 126 elephants amid severe flooding in the wake of Typhoon Yagi Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has ...

African elephant populations are sometimes thought to differ only by the location of the animals, but, evolutionarily speaking, forest and savannah elephants are as separate genetically as Asian ...