We'd read a bit about Elephant Island in Endurance, the book about the legendary British explorer Ernest Shackleton. After his ship, Endurance, was crushed by ice in 1915, he and his crew dragged ...

Elephant seals began recolonizing Año Nuevo Island, now part of the UC Natural Reserve System ... Le Boeuf co-edited an earlier book on elephant seals—Elephant Seals: Population Ecology, Behavior, and ...

The entrance to Luna Park, Coney Island, in 1903 ... Thomas Edison electrocuted an innocent, abused elephant, writes Michael Daly in new book, “Topsy.” The camera was running and recorded ...