Thanks to schoolchildren’s pennies and dimes, Ziggy the elephant got a taste of freedom on Sept. 23, 1970. The door to his cage at Brookfield Zoo opened, and there stood his former keeper ...

The idea of a gigantic elephant with 8ft (2.5 metre) long tusks may sound like the stuff of science fiction. But such a creature actually roamed Israel 500,000 years ago, according to a new study.

Thirty large mammal specialists traveled from South Africa, India and other zoos across America last week to perform the last phase of tusk removal surgery for Ali, a 34-year-old elephant at the ...

It appeared to be part of an ice-age elephant tusk. The fossil was intact, making it an “extremely rare find for Mississippi,” the state's Department of Environmental Quality announced on its ...