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 ...

"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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sporting a trunk-like nose and a jet-black rump, a new species of a bizarre furry mammal was caught on film as it scuttled along a forest floor in Tanzania. Researchers first sighted the ...

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 ...