Was he really the biggest elephant in the world? And was he suffering from tuberculosis? It took nearly 18 months to negotiate access, establish what the scientific team could do and organize the ...

Many of Wisconsin's world's largest things reflect its agriculture industry: a round barn, a talking cow, a potato masher.

Hyped as ‘the biggest elephant’ in the world, Jumbo was met by a record-breaking crowd and hauled up Broadway in his crate. More than a century after his death, mystery still swirls around Jumbo.

Prehistoric humans are under suspicion of wiping out the largest birds that ever lived ... According to scientists, it's evidence that the elephant birds of Madagascar were hunted and butchered ...

An endangered Asian elephant calf was born last week at the Houston Zoo. The Texas zoo said 34-year-old Asian elephant Shanti ...

The study did not track a continent-wide population tally because the various surveys employed different methodologies over ...