Heavyweight Champ: Weighing in at some 7 tons, the African elephant takes the prize for largest living land animal. To put the creature’s size in perspective, a single elephant tooth can weigh ...

The depiction of a tusked animal, which was painted nearly two centuries ago, is probably not a made-up creature, Benoit explains, but a recreation of a beast that once lived in the region more ...

Biological anthropologists use genetic data to understand the evolutionary relationships that humans share with great apes and to examine how our genetic history differs from theirs. A range of ...

(WANE) – The Fort Wayne Zoo will open for its 60th season with a new African lion ... Vice President of Animal Care and Conservation Education, said in a press release sent by the zoo.

The newborn, named Corra, is the first African elephant calf to be born at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in seven years, according to a blog post penned by Walt Disney Parks’ director of animal and ...