They’re majestic and impossible to ignore — it’s no wonder elephants have inspired some of the most powerful advertising ...

A young bull elephant in South Africa appears to have invented a game in which he uses his trunk to fling rocks at safari ...

Elephants are known for their intelligence, complex social behavior, memory and size, including their giant ears. The ears of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) can grow up to 6.6 feet (2 meters) ...

Joshua Plotnik: For about 20 years, I have been studying Asian elephant cognition. The biggest issue for the conservation of ...

Two of the African elephants at the Pittsburgh Zoo are on the move. The zoo says female elephants Victoria and Zuri will be ...

A man had his pants pulled down by an attacking elephant at the Bandipur Tiger Reserve in India in what could have been a ...

Wild elephants seem to address each other using distinctive, rumbling sounds that could be akin to individual names. That's according to a provocative new study in the journal Nature Ecology & ...

"The guides misjudged how close they could take the tourists." Graphic video shows terrifying elephant attack on tourists' canoes: 'It was protecting its young' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Archaeologists outside of Rome uncover ancient heavy-duty tools made from elephant bones over 400,000 years ago.

What is killing the elephants? Is it a novel pathogen or a poison? More than 350 elephants have mysteriously died in northern Botswana over the past two months, which scientists describe as a ...

India's wild elephant population estimates have dropped sharply by a quarter, a government survey incorporating a new DNA ...

A New Mexico woman died in Zambia this week when an elephant charged a parked car. An African elephant killed a 64-year-old tourist in Zambia on Wednesday, the second fatal attack in the country this ...