Elephants are creatures of habit, and they typically don’t show up here at the Mushara waterhole in Namibia’s Etosha National ...

An unusual convoy is nearing Argentina’s lush border with Brazil, after snaking through traffic-snarled roads for hours.

Watch: Elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park surrounded the younger elephants in a protective “alert circle” when a 5.2 ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The intricate web of cracks and crevices that gives African elephants their distinctive look is, in fact, an essential ...

Olga Thompson/Walt Disney World A baby elephant recently made a grand entrance at Walt Disney World! The newborn, named Corra, is the first African elephant calf to be born at Disney’s Animal ...

When an earthquake strikes, humans duck and cover. But elephants get in formation. African elephants at the San Diego Zoo instinctively formed a protective circle around its youngest family ...

The largest land mammal on Earth, elephants embody the African landscape. Using seasonal cues and their long-term memories, these hulking creatures travel vast distances in close-knit herds to find ...

The African elephant is the largest land mammal, growing up to 13ft (4m) at shoulder height and weighing around 6350kg (14000lbs). Living up to 70 years elephants are famous for their wisdom and ...

It was a major mystery. Between May and June in twenty twenty, the dead carcasses of African elephants began appearing in Botswana’s Okavango Delta. Elephants of all ages were seen walking in ...

And then there’s African elephants – the largest land animals in the world. In many ways, elephants are impressively resilient. They’re found across a diverse range of habitats and climate types, and ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed new restrictions today on U.S. imports of sport-hunted African elephant trophies and live trade. The proposal halts trophy imports from ...

Museum research has uncovered populations with a mosaic of features. There are two forms of African elephant, with different distributions and very marked physical differences: A 2004 expedition to ...