The elephant statue has landed. And it’ll be selfie city in Tuscaloosa this fall. The University of Alabama recently relocated of a seven-ton, 19-foot elephant statue named Tuska to the corner of ...

A fossilized elephant skull found in the Kashmir Valley is reshaping how scientists understand an ancient giant’s past. Discovered in 2000 from the Karewa sediments near Pampore, the skull remained a ...

An extinct species of giant elephant that used to roam across much of Europe and Asia was more closely related to modern African forest elephants than forest elephants are to modern African bush ...

Editor's Note: This story was updated on Thursday, Sept. 5 at 12:20 p.m. E.T. Ursa Major, the Tadpole Galaxy, the Crab Nebula — when it comes to naming objects in space, it sometimes seems like ...

The elephant, one of the attractions at Machines of the Island of Nantes, an artistic, tourism and cultural project, normally takes 50 passengers, as it tours a former naval dockyard. Due to social ...

Madagascar’s extinct elephant birds – the largest birds ever to have lived – have captured public interest for hundreds of years. Little is known about them due to large gaps in the skeletal fossil ...

David Attenborough investigates the remarkable life and death of Jumbo the elephant - a celebrity animal superstar whose story is said to have inspired the movie Dumbo. Attenborough joins a team of ...

Towering around nine feet tall – half of that neck – and weighing in at more than 300 pounds, ostriches are the biggest birds on the planet today. But there once was an even bigger bird, which roamed ...