The largest elephant ever officially recorded was an individual male African savanna elephant named 'Henry,' or the Fénykövi Elephant, which weighed an immense 24,000 pounds and stood over 13 feet ...

Have you ever wondered what the world’s largest land animal might be? While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and ...

Many key differences separate African elephant from Asian elephants. Not only are they found in completely separate parts of the world, but they live in different habitats as well. The African ...

As an elephant named Jayei birthed her baby, the other elephants in her herd began to grow anxious. But not Jayei. She’s the matriarch, or leader, of the African elephant herd at Omaha’s Henry Doorly ...

COLORADO SPRINGS – An aging elephant at a Colorado zoo is recovering after being hoisted back to her feet with help from firefighters. The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo says a 33-year-old African elephant ...

Everyone is taught that there are two species of elephants – the African and the Asian – but new research is suggesting this isn't the whole truth. The "African elephant" is actually two species, as ...

Elephants are the largest land animals worldwide, used in tourism in several countries, and are often gentle to humans ...

ATLANTA — Zoo Atlanta announced a new big-eared resident was coming to their African Savanna thanks to a new transfer from the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kan. According to zoo officials, Titan, a ...

This is the heartwarming moment zookeepers use a crane to haul a four-ton elderly elephant back to her feet. Quick-thinking staff rushed to save the 47-year-old African elephant after she was knocked ...

An extinct species of giant elephant that used to roam across much of Europe and Asia was more closely related to modern African forest elephants than forest elephants are to modern African bush ...

(KRON) — An elephant that’s spent two decades at Oakland Zoo will soon be reunited with other African elephants. The zoo announced Monday that “Osh,” a 30-year-old male elephant, will leave the zoo in ...

The Biden administration strengthened protections for African elephants, but stopped short of issuing a total ban on imports of hunting trophies and live animals, to the disappointment of wildlife ...