When Francesco Rovero first saw the image captured by one of his automatic cameras in a remote Tanzanian forest, he knew he'd never seen anything quite like it. It was the size of a small dog, covered ...

"What we are seeing here today is an elephant tusk, it's a straight tusk elephant, it's huge, it's two and half meters long, its diameter is 20 centimeters, and you can imagine how much he weighed.

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 ...

A GRAVEYARD of giant elephant remains has revealed how the colossal beasts roamed Earth some 300,000 years ago. Scientists discovered the remains of one of the largest mammals to have ever walked the ...

This is the moment a huge elephant was craned out of a 40-foot well during a two-day rescue mission after it fell in when a herd raided a village. Around a dozen elephants went on the rampage in the ...

Madagascar is home to some of the world’s most unique flora and fauna. And, up until about a thousand years ago, it was home to the world’s largest known bird species. Meet Madagascar’s legendary ...

BANDUNG, Indonesia – Indonesian scientists are reconstructing the largest, most complete skeleton of a prehistoric giant elephant ever found in the tropics, a finding that may offer new clues into the ...

A 50-year-old ‘giant tusker’ elephant was killed by poachers in Kenya, leaving only 25 surviving in the wild. Satao II, named after another famed elephant who was poached in 2014, was found dead near ...

400,000 years ago, early humans in Europe, Asia and Africa lived alongside giant straight-tusked elephants, far bigger than their modern-day cousins. Their evolution has long been a mystery to ...

This has been a banner year for tropical-plant nuts like me as Regal Shields, Borneo Giant and Portora (just to name a few) started showing up in area garden centers. These are just a few of the ...