Elephants that live near farms are more daring than their deep-forest counterparts, and that behavior could be the key to ...

Saturday's hike will launch a long-term project that blends personal stories and the history of land use in the area to better understand the evolution of Elephant Hill — to safeguard its future.

Elephants weren’t always the gentle giants we know today – their ancestors were some of the strangest creatures to walk the Earth. In this video, we explore the bizarre evolutionary journey of ...

The elephant trunk plays a critical role in communication. While people assume the trumpet-like noises that we hear from their trunks are their means of communication, that is usually not the case.

Want Modern Proof Of Evolution? Look At The Elephants Of Mozambique Ivory poaching during 15 years of civil war fired up the process of natural selection.

On World Elephant Day, a reflection of the importance India attaches to elephants is found in the fact that we treasure it as our National Heritage Animal.

Elephants have astonishing trunks that are strong, dexterous and flexible. Now, scientists may have finally worked out how Earth's largest living land animals evolved their charismatic proboscises.

The Sicilian dwarf elephant was a tiny, evolutionary marvel. An exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History features a model of it and its baby.

Fossil teeth and deep-sea drilling are guiding scientists through the evolution of the largest living land animals. As Africa became increasingly arid over the past 10 million years, elephant teeth ...

Over time, the ratchet would have been one factor driving the evolution of extreme grazers such as Palaeoloxodon jolensis, a straight-tusked elephant which was highly dependent on grasslands. Climate ...