London’s smallest elephant, ironically named Jumbo Jr, arrived from Ceylon in 1903. He was quite the celebrity. The pint-sized pachyderm was invited to Buckingham Palace (twice), a Covent Garden ball, ...

Appearance Large, gray-skinned with a long trunk and floppy ears Large, gray-skinned with a short, thick horn on its nose Size The largest land mammal, can weigh up to 14,000 pounds Smaller than ...

Elephants are the largest land animals on Earth ... of Science Writers Excellence in Institutional Writing Award, short-form category.

Auckland Zoo relocated Asian elephant Burma to Monarto Safari Park in November 2024, and less than two months since Burma arrived at her new home, she has had her first trunk-to-trunk connection ...

TIME to tackle the elephant in the room. With the board game Trunk Tales developed by conservation group the Management and Ecology of Malaysian Elephants (MEME), everyone can. MEME explained the ...

A video shows the calf stumbling around the zoo’s indoor elephant habitat, nursing from Rose-Tu and butting trunk-first into the camera. Not even one week old and already a star!

Portland's Oregon Zoo welcomed a new resident over the weekend, a baby Asian elephant that's already ... the wobbly little one with her trunk. It doesn’t take long for the calf to ...

When a bull elephant and hippo meet in a watering hole, it’s not always a peaceful coexistence. In the accompanying footage, captured by Scott Hyman in Botswana, South Africa, the much larger ...

Elephants trumpeted, touched trunks and flapped their oversized ears upon reuniting with their herd after a complex, five-day move from an urban Australian zoo to a much larger enclosure.

Motorists in Prachin Buri province experienced a heart-stopping moment when two wild elephants wandered onto a public road, narrowly avoiding a collision with passing vehicles. The dramatic incident ...

Divers in Florida’s Steinhatchee River stumbled upon hundreds of pristine fossils from an obscure Ice Age period, including ...