Videos and images of Iceland's Elephant Rock in fact showed a place that genuinely exists — although some footage showed ...

As the largest land mammal on the planet, it is no secret that African elephants are massive animals. Reaching between 10 and 13 feet tall and weighing between 2 and 8 tons, these creatures are ...

“From an evolutionary biology perspective ... The better-known LIF gene has a number of functions in mammals, including as an extracellular cytokine. In elephants, LIF is duplicated numerous times as ...

Elephants have names for each other just like humans do, a new study shows. The new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution on Monday found that Wild African elephants address each other ...

We are studying the evolution of elephants and their relatives in Africa and in Europe over the past 20 million years. The transition from eating mainly soft leaves of trees to coarser leaves of ...

In collaboration with colleagues in the UK, Israel and elsewhere, we have investigated the evolutionary origin of the Asian elephant through a comparison of fossils from northern India/Pakistan and ...

Southern elephant seals are the "canary in the coal mine" for the Southern Ocean, offering insight into how the ecosystem may ...

The mice were created by Colossal Biosciences, which edits DNA for species conservation, and has been working to bring back the woolly mammoth since 2021.

Olduvai Gorge is a Unesco World Heritage site. It became well known in 1959 through the pioneering work of palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries of early human remains reshaped our ...

Elephants, with their stable memories, were under no cultural-evolutionary pressure to develop external information storage. Thus, it is fallacious to infer that elephants didn’t build complex ...