Asian elephant in North America will celebrate his 60th birthday at the Houston Zoo this month, marking over four decades at the facility, caretakers said.

The second-oldest male Asian elephant in North America will celebrate his 60th birthday at the Houston Zoo this month, ...

Giant Elephants & The Snake House! Watch Corey Wild on this week's episode as he rides giant elephants and enters The Snake House. Meet a giant Asian Elephant and learn everything you wanted to know ...

IIn the last century, Thailand has lost roughly 92 percent of its elephant population. Factors such as illegal wildlife trade ...

White Oak Conservation’s purchase of 35 Asian elephants from Feld Entertainment, announced today, creates what will be the largest community of Asian elephants in the Western Hemisphere ...

In contrast, modern elephants belong to the genus Elephas which are Asian elephants and Loxodonta which are African elephants. There are three main living species: the African bush elephant ...

What truly set these Nepalese bull elephants apart from other Asian elephants, however, were their distinctive head domes and exceptionally powerful build. Raja Gaj, standing at an impressive 3.5m ...

Massive Megatherium sloths once stood as large as Asian elephants, ripping foliage off treetops with prehensile tongues like today's giraffes. "They looked like grizzly bears but five times larger," ...

A large elephant seal took a wrong turn and was seen lumbering along a street in a coastal town in South Africa early Tuesday, surprising residents and inspiring a rescue effort to get him back to ...

But they couldn't be sure about their suspicions until researchers compared African elephant, Asian elephant, woolly mammoth, and mastodon DNA. Y: Wait a minute. Mammoths and mastodo ...

"Charlotte" was the name of the pachyderm that Cora, an Asian elephant, portrayed in "Smokey and the Bandit II," a movie put out in 1980 starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed and Jackie ...

Asian and African elephants, though related, exhibit key differences. African elephants are larger with fan-shaped ears and tusks in both sexes, inhabiting savannas. Asian elephants are smaller ...