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

This video examines elephants by directly comparing their strength, behavior, and survival traits to other large animals shown in the footage. Scenes highlight how size, weight, and group coordination ...

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

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

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 ...

The southern elephant seal population in South Africa has seen its conservation status improve from near threatened to least concern, with a recent assessment citing the absence of serious threats to ...

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 ...

The findings suggest these ghost elephants survived Angola’s war by never leaving—adapting instead by becoming invisible. “I ...

The lions that roamed the plains of northern Botswana were dying. One by one, the big cats were succumbing to poisoned bait ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Elephant Hawk Moth Caterpillar look like elephant's trunks and have eyespots to scare off predators.© Eileen ...

From the last thylacine to Mollie the drinking, smoking orangutan, little Punch the monkey is the latest in a long line of lonely zoo animals.