Elephant ears are unique. African elephants have large ears. Asian elephants have smaller ears. Ears help regulate body temperature. They also enhance hearing. Elephants use ears for communication.

Elephants in warmer climates need larger ears to stay cool. That’s why African elephants, who live in hotter regions, have much larger ears than their Asian counterparts. The bigger the ear, the ...

In 1975, 19-year-old Joyce Poole was offered the chance of a lifetime: To study elephants in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park. Elephant researcher Cynthia Moss, who had just started a study of ...

Elephants seem to have 20 different copies of a tumor-suppressing gene known as p53. This gene encodes a protein, also known as p53, which serves as a crucial cell protector .

The elephant enclosure at the Los Angeles Zoo appeared to be empty Tuesday, prompting concerns from activists wondering whether Billy and Tina, the aging inhabitants, were transferred to another zoo.

Lucy the Elephant in Margate City, New Jersey was named the best roadside attraction in the USA TODAY 10Best Readers' Choice Awards. Built in 1881, Lucy has a rich history, originally named ...

Bengaluru: In the past 59 tamed elephants have been handed over to other States by Karnataka to deal with man-elephant conflict situations and to add to the tally about 6 tamed elephants experts ...

When she twerks on the court at Barclays Center, she whips her signature long braid to and fro. Ellie is an elephant.

The Forest Department on Sunday continued efforts to treat a female wild elephant that was found in an ailing condition behind the Bharathiar University campus in Coimbatore district ...

Three people, including a woman, were trampled and killed by two wild elephants in three separate incidents in Madhya Pradesh’s Shahdol district on Monday (May 19, 2025). According to officials ...

Elephant mothers are some of the most protective animals on the planet. When one baby elephant falls, they all come running, literally! It’s almost like an unspoken code among the species ...

African elephants are the largest land animals on earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless ...