After more than three years of work, the Safari Park’s new elephant habitat is set to open to the public Thursday, providing visitors up-close viewing of the park’s herd of eight endangered African ...

For more than a decade, conservation biologist Steve Boyes searched for "ghost elephants"—nocturnal giants rumored to roam a ...

Population in peril: African elephant numbers have dropped sharply, with forest elephants losing over 60% of their population ...

Like most people, you’ve likely been in situations where there’s a relevant issue that nobody seems willing to talk about. You might even say to yourself, “There’s an elephant in this room, and I sure ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. While you might think that big cats are the kings of the savannah, it turns out that hooved animals are just as scared of ...

Elephants have fascinated people for centuries, and the more scientists study them, the more impressive they seem. Their intelligence, physical abilities, and social lives reveal a level of complexity ...

African elephant populations are sometimes thought to differ only by the location of the animals, but, evolutionarily speaking, forest and savannah elephants are as separate genetically as Asian ...

It is said that elephants are afraid of mice, but scientists have discovered what elephants are really afraid of: bees. It turns out that the enormous mammals sound an alarm when they encounter bees, ...