Baby animals share many similarities with human babies. Baby chimpanzees will cry when their needs aren't being met. All babies love to cuddle up with their moms and look to them for protection. And ...

From their floppy ears to their giant trunks and massive size, there’s a lot that stands out about the elephant. Elephant tusks are both a valuable tool and a potential liability for these gentle ...

Poachers are killing 40,000 elephants a year, and with a global elephant population of just 400,000, it doesn’t take a mathematician to figure out that there is an urgent need to stop the killing. But ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks. The research was published ...

ADDO, South Africa — Through the narrow slit of the underground hide in front of the water hole, an African morning revealed itself. The sun painted the earth orange. A lion stepped out of the bush ...

Not so long ago, the trumpeting of elephants could be heard across a great deal of our planet. Wrinkly-skinned giants did not only inhabit Africa and southern Asia, but roamed from prehistoric ...

This story contains images that may disturb some viewers. WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A veterinary dentist came to the rescue of a Sedgwick County Zoo elephant that suffered a broken tusk in a fight with ...

Alex O'Keefe, an award-winning screenwriter for the hit FX show The Bear, posted a video on Instagram of Metropolitan Transit ...

Credit: Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm/Cover Images An African elephant at a Somerset zoo has been given specialist dental care after keepers spotted a tiny hole in his tusk during a routine check-up. Uli, a ...