The giant skull from a straight tusked elephantCredit: Steven Zhang A giant skull from a straight-tusked elephant known as the Palaeoloxodon was dug out from the quarry in 2000, followed by a cache of ...

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 ...

A baby elephant at the Oregon Zoo had more tricks than treats to show when handlers gave it a small pumpkin to play with ...

BANDUNG, Indonesia – Indonesian scientists are reconstructing the largest, most complete skeleton of a prehistoric giant elephant ever found in the tropics, a finding that may offer new clues into the ...

When Francesco Rovero first saw the image captured by one of his automatic cameras in a remote Tanzanian forest, he knew he'd never seen anything quite like it. It was the size of a small dog, covered ...

During an annual fall event where giant elephants smash massive pumpkins, a baby elephant was too small to crush the largest ...

This is the moment a huge elephant was craned out of a 40-foot well during a two-day rescue mission after it fell in when a herd raided a village. Around a dozen elephants went on the rampage in the ...

They might be the odd couple of the bird world. Scientists on Thursday identified the closest relative of New Zealand's famed kiwi, a shy chicken-sized flightless bird, as the elephant bird of ...

This has been a banner year for tropical-plant nuts like me as Regal Shields, Borneo Giant and Portora (just to name a few) started showing up in area garden centers. These are just a few of the ...

According to a study humans were feasting on the mammoth-sized creatures 300,000-years-ago *All recommendations within this article are informed by expert editorial opinion. If you click on a link in ...