Baby animals share many similarities with human babies. Baby chimpanzees will cry when their needs aren't being met. All babies love to cuddle up with their moms and look to them for protection. And ...

From their floppy ears to their giant trunks and massive size, there’s a lot that stands out about the elephant. Elephant tusks are both a valuable tool and a potential liability for these gentle ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 14 – DNA testing on seized ivory shipments that reveals family ties among African elephants killed for their tusks is helping to identify poaching areas and trafficking networks at the ...

Lois the elephant was euthanized Tuesday after suffering escalating health issues, according to officials with the Kansas ...

Yaounde, Cameroon: December 14, 2017: Wildlife authorities in Cameroon have seized 216 elephant tusks and 81 elephant tails in a pickup vehicle that belongs to an army colonel in the South Region of ...

A well-preserved 500,000-year-old 2.5-meter-long elephant tusk has been discovered by archeologists and paleontologists near a kibbutz in the south of Israel. It took experts from the Israel ...

When human settlements and wildlife bump into each other it can cause big problems, so scientists are working on an ...

Angul: Special Task Force (STF) of Odisha Police has arrested two wildlife traffickers and seized two elephant tusks weighing ...

The biggest elephant in Botswana has been killed by trophy hunters for its near 8-foot-long tusks. The elephant had been carrying 200 pounds of ivory in its tusks, and was the largest to be hunted in ...