China hopes to become a global leader in protected nature reserves, creating a network of wilderness that would be three ...

But they are not familiar with the herd dynamics and the familial bonds that usually exist among wild Asian elephants. Nick Newby, a member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Elephant ...

Across the Levant in the 15th century B.C., cities were rising up against freshly-installed pharaoh Thutmose III. It would be ...

Afterward, he traveled to the Patanangala beach inside Yala National Park ... where thousands of people perished, the Indo-Asian News service reported that buffaloes, goats, and dogs were found ...

Once hidden under the wraps of the Northeast's remoteness, Kaziranga is now dominating headlines and trending across various ...

Explore animals that start with “E,” like the elephant, emu, eel, elk, & echidna! Discover where these animals starting with ...

ZURICH — A 19-year-old Asian elephant at the Zurich Zoo gave birth this past weekend to a male whose name, starting with the letter Z, will be announced this week. A light-sensitive monitoring ...

Getting close to them in their natural habitat can be an exhilarating opportunity, but elephant tourism is controversial and can be tough to navigate. As travelers become aware of the issues ...

However, the cerebellum is proportionally heavier in African elephants (a good 22 per cent of the total brain weight) than in Asian elephants (a good 19 per cent). Elephant brains grow almost as ...

The National Geographic Society — one of the world's largest and most influential science organizations — is going to pour money into the movement. From the National Geographic website ...

But they couldn't be sure about their suspicions until researchers compared African elephant, Asian elephant ... species is separated into two isolated geographic populations, unique genetic ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) in Washington, DC, has deaccessioned from its collection fragments of contested ancient Chinese artefacts known as the Zidanku Silk ...