The man aims his firearm at the behemoths passing ... the other elephants turn on the hunters to express their anger. African elephants are already a critically endangered species.

African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which ...

Scientists have recently shed some light on exactly why elephants, one of the biggest animals on the planet, paradoxically ...

A man who has fought his whole life to save the elephants and the ivory trade has opened up about being the four legged ...

There are three elephant species on the Earth today—African savanna elephants, African forest elephants, and Asian elephants. All elephants are at risk. Asian elephants roam forests and ...

12.5 million men, women and children were enslaved and shipped off to the New World, a trade first built on the extraction of massive amounts of African gold. The tusks of 94,000 elephants from ...

In 1928, King Kong directors Merian Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack wrote and photographed a story about taming African elephants, claiming “the mighty beast, having submitted to man’s superior ...

But scientists warn that African elephants – which wander through 37 countries in the huge continent – are heading for extinction. A new study, led by wildlife experts at Colorado State ...

He's a member of a three-man Elephant Response Team fighting to keep ... Indonesian death rituals and illegal miners in abandoned South African diamond mines.

African elephants are the largest land animals on earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless, Asian ...