(Steve Stringer Photography/Moment/Getty Images) Which footprint is bigger? An elephant's or a human's? It depends on how you ...

Early humans in England crafted a rare piece of elephant bone into a reusable hammer for sharpening stone tools nearly ...

The African elephant population was traditionally reliant upon the ability to move around large areas in order to preserve high numbers of healthy individuals and genetic diversity. Over countless ...

Farmers have dealt with pests since the advent of agriculture. Cats can catch mice, and fences can keep out rabbits. But what do you do when the creature raiding your crops is a six-ton African ...

With their massive flapping ears and long trunks, it isn't hard to believe that elephants tend to rely on acoustic and olfactory cues for communication. They use gestures and visual displays to ...

In this Friday, Aug. 9, 2013 photo, an African elephant walks in Tarangire National Park, 118 kilometers (75 miles) southwest of Arusha, Tanzania. The park is famous for its Baobab trees, birds, and ...

“The elephants didn’t mean them any harm” explained a resident from Bannerghatta, India who has to be careful at night in case the animals trample them. It is about living with nature’s large ...

You'd think elephants would be getting cancer left and right: They are giants of the animal kingdom and have trillions more cells than humans -- cells that, in theory, could turn into cancer over ...

When biologist Adam Hartstone-Rose watched zoo animals during a solar eclipse, he expected them to shrug it off like a passing storm. What he observed instead raised an uncomfortable question about ...

Elephants can communicate with other elephants across distances of up to five kilometers (3 miles) by producing sounds that ...