Baby elephants might grow to be one of the largest land animals in the world, but they are only around 200 to 300 pounds when they are born. Did you know that young elephants are called calves? Or ...

Elephants have fascinated people for centuries, and the more scientists study them, the more impressive they seem. Their intelligence, physical abilities, and social lives reveal a level of complexity ...

On average, 220 pounds of dung can be produced daily by an adult elephant. ©MR.PRAWET THADTHIAM/Shutterstock.com Feces, dung, poop: words that never fail to make a 12-year-old boy laugh. But they have ...

African elephant populations are sometimes thought to differ only by the location of the animals, but, evolutionarily speaking, forest and savannah elephants are as separate genetically as Asian ...

To celebrate, we picked 18 fun facts about the largest land mammal. For example, they "hug" their trunks to say hello to each other. An elephant's trunk weighs 400 pounds, but it can pick up things as ...

Elephants are among the most iconic creatures on Earth. National Elephant Appreciation Day, observed on Sept 22, celebrates these gentle giants that now need our help. National Elephant Appreciation ...

How different are elephants to woolly mammoths? Stuart Blackman explains how these two giant differ ...

These huge creatures are far more different than you might think ...

It there's one thing that most people can agree on, it's how adorable baby animals are. I could watch them all day! If you need a serotonin boost today, this video that Fresno Chaffee Zoo shared at ...