More than 145,000 African forest elephants roam the rainforests of Africa, according to a recent population assessment.

Elephants that live near farms are more daring than their deep-forest counterparts, and that behavior could be the key to helping people and elephants get along. That's the central finding of new ...

Thailand's most revered animal — the wild Asian elephant — has now become one of the country's biggest problems. Decades of deforestation and overdevelopment of natural habitat is pushing wild ...

While real life elephants can’t fly, they certainly have enormous ears. The African elephant, for instance, has the largest ...

While elephants are a reasonably common sight, one species has not been seen for years. The elusive "ghost elephant" has finally made a reappearance, and he has got people excited. Watch as he makes a ...

Researchers found that the animals are capable of using their trunks to make a range of gestures that express their intentions and wants. By Veronique Greenwood If you give an elephant an apple, she’s ...

Elephants and giraffes are relatively peaceful animals. They rarely fight and are often seen in videos behaving non-confrontationally toward humans and other animals. So when this video, by Latest ...

Colombo — A Sri Lankan express train killed an elephant and was derailed on Tuesday despite safety measures introduced after the country's worst wildlife railway accident three months ago on the same ...