Elephants have long captured human imagination in art and culture, and scientists have long sought to understand them. Scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) study African ...

African elephants are a matriarchal species ... Once the sleeping elephant is on its side, a hiss of paint from a can marks the number of the family group to which it belongs, ensuring that ...

There were dozens of described species, some rat-like in size and others as big as elephants. In the area around the rock art, dicynodonts like the pigmy hippo sized Kannemeyeria or the diminutive ...

“The elephant care team fondly remembers Kamala as ... who’s now animal care supervisor at the zoo’s African Safari section. ...

In a legal first, Colorado’s highest court is hearing arguments Thursday on whether five African elephants at the Cheyenne ... for the respondents tried to paint a picture of their lives that ...

The Kuosi Society Elephant Mask offers two important lessons ... Second, visitors can develop a more nuanced appreciation for African art by recognizing the rich symbolic meanings behind these ...

“And art.” “Do you think about the elephant ... it is “highly likely” that poachers killed at least 25,000 African elephants in 2011. The true figure may even be double that.

But a long-running project by charity Save the Elephants offered her an unlikely solution -- deterring some of nature's ...

They’ll paint ivory tusks black, or coat them in chocolate and ... to sniff out pangolin scales, rhino horns, elephant tusks and African blackwood being transported illegally. These clever critters ...

In 1973, just a few years out of college, River Forest local Robert Steed made his first sculpture of an endangered animal.

Three African forest elephants are relocating from Tunisia to the Vantara wildlife rescue center in India, due to the financial struggles of their current zoo. Vantara, launched by Anant Mukesh Ambani ...

There were dozens of described species, some rat-like in size and others as big as elephants. In the area around the rock art ...