Despite its tiny size, the sengi—also known as the elephant shrew—is more closely related to elephants than actual shrews!

Although elephant tusks appear large today, the tusks of their ancestors were dramatically larger. Due to the large size of the tusks, and the fact that they were longer than the elephant’s head ...

Bornean elephants are purportedly the smallest elephants in the world. Their calves are really diminutive: picture an animal the size of a compact fridge. They have hairy ears and an Eeyore-like ...

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He used a tilted wide-angle lens to catch the size of any elephant entering the foreground, and a narrow aperture to create depth of field so that elephants in the background would also be in focus.