Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The elephant is the largest existing land mammal on Earth, weighing anywhere from 4,000 to 10,000 pounds. There are three species ...

BELA-BELA, South Africa (AP) — Tuesday is World Elephant Day. Here are five things to know about the largest land animals on our planet. Tell them apart by their ears There are three species of ...

Wildlife videographer and safari guide Rob the Ranger films an extraordinary encounter between elephants interacting naturally in the bush.

Wildlife videographer and safari guide Rob the Ranger walks among wild elephants, capturing their daily interactions in the African bush.

DPReview community member Friedrich von Horsten shares a lifelong passion for photography that began with a borrowed Minolta ...

Elephants are one of the iconic animals that people travel thousands of miles to see. But have you ever wondered if elephants are endangered? Well, unfortunately, these huge animals — the largest land ...

An extinct species of giant elephant that used to roam across much of Europe and Asia was more closely related to modern African forest elephants than forest elephants are to modern African bush ...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY • Grant’s Farm will no longer keep elephants at its south St. Louis County attraction after the deaths of four elephants there this year — three of which happened within the past two ...

The area is beginning to look like a "forested savannah" again, and there have been sightings of buffalo, kob, warthogs, topi, and lions.

1. Does recent research resolve once and for all whether there are two separate species of African elephant? 2. What are the conservation implications if there are two species? We would have to ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A study of the African bush elephant's vast network of deep wrinkles has found it is intricately designed to help the animals keep their cool, fight off parasites and defend against ...