Elephants are the largest land animals on Earth, with immense strength, thick skin, and powerful tusks. Few predators would ...

Sleeping for only a few minutes at a time? While this might sound like a true ordeal for humans, it's no problem for some ...

Explore the legacy of Craig the elephant, a symbol of wildlife conservation, and the challenges of emotional attachment to iconic animals.

On the harsh plains of Africa, survival favors the powerful - and few animals embody raw dominance like the elephant. We ...

Can Ben Lamm save the planet? He thinks so. Short, stocky and unassuming with a puckish sense of humor, the shaggy-haired ...

The plight of a young, abandoned macaque monkey in Japan has tugged at heartstrings around the world. If we recognise animals' capacity for distress, what responsibility does that entail?

Long before today’s tree-dwelling sloths, a 4-ton giant roamed South America — and it may have stood and fought like a bear.

Elephants are social animals and live in herds, predominantly made up of the family's females. They have large brains and are considered intelligent and capable of learning. Adults have no predators ...

In terms of emotion, the ecologist Almo Farina and environmental scientist Philip James have argued that the fear of humans ...

And they are no evolutionary accident: whiskers, surrounded by follicles on their base has “mechanoreceptors” that help expand the animal’s sense of touch. They are tactile sensory organs that help ...

When people talk about saving wildlife, they often focus on numbers. Conversations center on how many deer live in a forest, ...

Many of us would probably like to forget sitting through math classes in school. But let’s briefly travel back, just for a ...