African Savanna Elephants are the largest living land animals. Henry, shot in Angola in 1955, weighed 24,000 pounds. Henry is displayed at the Smithsonian Museum since 1959. Largest Elephant in the ...

After the H5N1 virus hit the remote island of South Georgia in 2023, more than 50,000 breeding females may have disappeared.

A magnificent bull elephant with tusks so long he could rest them on the ground has been found dead in Kenya, his tusks hacked off and his face mutilated by poachers. The Guardian and Outside Magazine ...

When poaching amplifies the effect of higher hunting quotas, it is bad news for the future of Botswana’s elephant population ...

BELA-BELA, South Africa — Tuesday is World Elephant Day. Here are five things to know about the largest land animals on our planet. There are three species of elephants: the African savanna or bush ...

History has not been kind to the elephant bird of Madagascar. Standing nearly 10 feet tall and weighing up to 1,000 pounds — or so researchers believed — this flightless cousin of the ostrich went ...

The "world's largest pink elephant," has stood outside a gas station went of DeForest and north of Madison since the '60s. They say bigger is better and whole lot of people from around Wisconsin have ...

Elephants are the largest land mammals on earth with very few predators. These powerful animals can literally stomp ...