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 ...

The emotional standoff halted traffic as tearful onlookers gathered around the elephant On Mother's Day, a heartbreaking incident unfolded along Malaysia's East-West Highway when a baby elephant ...

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 ...

A young elephant in the Malaysian state of Perak was killed in an accident with a lorry on May 11 while it was crossing a highway with its mother, drawing widespread sympathy after a video showed ...

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 ...

Even under today's climatic conditions, the long-extinct straight-tusked elephant could still live in Europe. This is the conclusion of a recent study. For this finding, the research group ...