In contrast, Asian elephants have smaller, rounder ears, reflecting their adaptation to more temperate environments. These differences are crucial for regulating body temperature, with larger ears ...

Elephants in warmer climates need larger ears to stay cool. That’s why African elephants, who live in hotter regions, have much larger ears than their Asian counterparts. The bigger the ear, the ...

It's the end of The Swans. Well, kind of. After the band's current album and touring cycle, founder and leader Michael Gira is going to pare down the band into something more intimate. But, on the eve ...

The retired elephants of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will be moving to a spacious new home at a Florida conservation center next year, concluding a journey that began in 2015 when ...

In 1975, 19-year-old Joyce Poole was offered the chance of a lifetime: To study elephants in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park. Elephant researcher Cynthia Moss, who had just started a study of ...

African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless ...

Elephants seem to have 20 different copies of a tumor-suppressing gene known as p53. This gene encodes a protein, also known as p53, which serves as a crucial cell protector .

Five Asian elephants live on a 17-acre complex at the Tulsa Zoo, and they share a 36,650-square-foot barn — a space much larger than the one Billy and Tina have now.

When GPS-triggered alerts show an elephant herd heading toward villages near Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park, Capon Sibanda springs into action. He posts warnings in WhatsApp groups before ...

Karnataka will hand over kumki elephants to Andhra Pradesh on May 21 to tackle man-elephant conflict along the Karnataka-Andhra Pradesh border. Karnataka Forest and Environment Minister Eshwar ...

Four of the elephants from the Great Elephant Migration art exhibit will permanently make their home in Hermann Park in Houston. The public art installation of 100 life-size Indian elephant ...