A tense wildlife encounter unfolds at Amboseli National Park as a group of elephants confronts a pride of lions in the ...

The rarest elephant subspecies or species is the Sumatran elephant Elephas maximus sumatrensis. Smaller and paler in colouration than the Sri Lankan and Indian elephants, it is the only subspecies or ...

A new international study has revealed the genetic impact of hunting in northern elephant seals. The research shows that this species narrowly escaped extinction by hunting, resulting in lasting ...

Habitat loss and poaching have driven dramatic declines in African elephants, but it is challenging to measure their numbers and monitor changes across the entire continent. A new study has analyzed ...

According to Tara Easter, writing for the organization, the move to place both species under the protection of the Endangered Species Act would close a regulatory loophole in controlling the illegal ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Instead of one species of elephant, Africa has two, researchers said on Tuesday, confirming suspicions about the two distinctly different looking pachyderms. Using gene sequencing ...

Habitat loss and poaching have driven dramatic declines in African elephants, but it is challenging to measure their numbers and monitor changes across the entire continent. A new study has analyzed ...