The northern elephant seal is the largest of the “true” seals in the Northern Hemisphere. Adult males use their large, inflatable noses during the winter breeding season to resonate sound when vocally ...

Nania beat the odds to survive separation from her forest elephant family in Burkina Faso. Her caretakers hope DNA testing may help return her to the wild with her family. By Elizabeth Preston The ...

Cher stands with Kaavan, the elephant she helped rescue. Smithsonian Channel Cher never intended to get involved in the rescue of a 8,700-pound elephant from a zoo in Pakistan. But after seeing ...

I stood atop a lookout point in the heart of Los Angeles County watching the sunset paint downtown L.A. a deep orange. I was amazed to be alone in the outdoors just before 5 p.m. in America’s ...

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“Murderous Mary” was executed in the town of Erwin, Tennessee, more than a century ago, and her saddening story still resonates today with conservationists worldwide. Few stories are as perplexing and ...

National Geographic Explorer Joyce Poole reflects on her life’s achievement: an ethogram cataloguing nearly 50 years of data on African elephant behavior. Joyce Poole records elephant vocalizations in ...

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in southern England and analyzed by archaeologists from UCL and the Natural ...

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Early humans in England crafted a rare piece of elephant bone into a reusable hammer for sharpening stone tools nearly 500,000 years ago. The extraordinary find reveals that ancient toolmakers were ...

After more than 15 years of collaborative research, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and Houston Zoo have reached a major milestone in the fight against elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV), ...