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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lucy is a National Historic Landmark and the country's oldest roadside attraction, but to those who love her, she's so much more.

A mother elephant's heartbreaking vigil beside her calf, killed in a road accident, has drawn widespread sorrow and outrage online. The tragic incident took place on 11 May, Mother's Day, along the ...

A young elephant in the Malaysian state of Perak was killed in an accident with a lorry on May 11 while it was crossing a highway with its mother, drawing widespread sympathy after a video showed ...