The retired elephants of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will be moving to a spacious new home at a Florida conservation center next year, concluding a journey that began in 2015 when ...

A 55-year-old Chinese man was accidentally swept more than 28,000 feet over Northwest China while testing a paraglider ...

Many creatures have imprinted on our hearts — and even a city sidewalk — for making their homes near ours. Here’s a look back at some of Chicago’s well-loved animals.

Theatre Group opens its season with a timely revival of Bernard Pomerance’s "The Elephant Man," exploring compassion, cruelty ...

After losing her mother to breast cancer at 14 years old, Lorraine Gibson lived with the fear of the "pink elephant in the room," unable to speak about how the loss affected her or about breast cancer ...

Here's why a cycling safari is the best way to see the Big Five, and it includes riding on "elephant highways." ...

Wisconsin is loaded with wonderfully weird spots - dare we call them "WiscODDities" - like Dr. Evermor's Sculpture Garden, ...

In 1975, 19-year-old Joyce Poole was offered the chance of a lifetime: To study elephants in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park. Elephant researcher Cynthia Moss, who had just started a study of ...

Under the guise of Cian Sharkhin, Kinahan also contributed a dark short story, “Dumbo the Elephant,” and a sibilant poem, “The Serpent,” to the poetry and prose pamphlet. “Dumbo the Elephant” is a ...

A judge denied a request to temporarily stop the LA Zoo from moving its two Asian elephants, Tina and Billy, to a zoo in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The lawsuit was filed by a man described as an "animal ...

The newly expanded preserve in Oklahoma is a 17-acre complex that has a 36,650-square-foot elephant barn and a 10-plus acre wooded preserve, which is home to five Asian elephants. Los Angeles Zoo ...

HWANGE, Zimbabwe (AP) — When GPS-triggered alerts show an elephant herd heading toward villages near Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, Capon Sibanda springs into action. He posts warnings in ...