A study conducted by international organizations investigated the unexplained deaths of 35 African elephants in Zimbabwe and found a potential link to a bacteria associated…
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According to recent research, elephants play a crucial role in the development of forests that store large amounts of carbon and preserving the biodiversity of…
Male elephant. Credit: Connie Allen Male elephants are more aggressive when fewer older males are present, new research suggests. The research, by the University of…
Intense ivory poaching during the Mozambican Civil War (1977-1992) resulted in the rapid evolution of tusklessness in female African elephants amid a precipitous population decline,…
Asian elephant siblings. Credit: Virpi Lummaa A study of semi-captive Asian elephants in Myanmar has found that calves benefit from having older sisters more than…
New research from the Georgia Institute of Technology finds that elephants dilate their nostrils in order to create more space in their trunks, allowing them…
Dusk falls on East Africa’s Turkana Basin 4 million years ago, where our early upright-walking ape ancestors, Australopithecus anamensis (foreground), shared their habitat with several…
A team of scientists compared methodologies to count African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis), which were recently acknowledged by IUCN as a separate, Critically Endangered species…
This image shows Murembo, a Great Tusker from Tsavo, Kenya’s largest protected area. Credit: John Marais A study reported in the journal Current Biology has…
This image shows elephants on the move. Credit: David Griffin African Elephants Only Occupy a Fraction of Their Potential Range Many wildlife species are threatened…
Elephants in woodland as seen from space. Green rectangles show elephants detected by the algorithm, red rectangles show elephants verified by humans. Credit: Satellite image…
A male Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) called Hank wearing an activity tracker on his front leg. Credit: Columbus Zoo & Aquarium, USA When Daniella Chusy,…
In 1533, the Bom Jesus — a Portuguese trading vessel carrying 40 tons of cargo including gold, silver, copper and more than 100 elephant tusks…
Recent years have witnessed a widespread and catastrophic decline in the number of forest elephants in protected areas in Côte d’Ivoire, according to a study…
Reconstructed life appearance of the extinct European straight-tusked elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus in frontal view, based on remains uncovered from the Neumark-Nord 1 site in Saxony-Anhalt,…