Between climate change and the effects of humanity on the environment, many species have been harmed. Here are a few of them ...

Three-quarters of this estimate are African savanna elephants. Over 50% of African forest elephants reside in Gabon, while most of the African savanna elephant population is spread through the ...

These gentle giants' evolutionary story and its parallels with that of humankind has long fascinated Dr Tori Herridge, a ...

Turkalo is convinced that forest elephants are a separate species from savannah elephants. And she can refer with authority after 30 years in the Central African Republic, about how the establishment ...

Importantly, despite compelling genetic research concluding that two species of African elephants exist — forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) and savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) — Africa's ...

At the same time, it is officially identifying African elephants as two distinct species: savanna elephants and forest elephants. The reclassification — part of an update to IUCN’s Red List of ...

Normally, I would expect to find elephants in Africa or Asia, but Tennessee happens to be home to one of the largest elephant safe-havens in ...

[David Gichuru, Standard] Elephants are the world’s largest land animals. There are lots of different kinds. There’s the African Forest elephant, the African Savannah elephant and the Asian ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The intricate web of cracks and crevices that gives African elephants their distinctive look is, in fact, an essential ...

Titan, a 16-year-old adult male African elephant, arrived in Atlanta on Wednesday from Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas. Titan was born in Eswatini and rescued as part of an international effort ...