Why Do Elephants Hold ‘Funerals’ For Their Dead? A Biologist Explains

Elephants investigate and revisit the remains of their dead for years — a biologist explains the real science behind this ...

Tiny Jurassic bird reveals a key step in bird evolution

The transition from a lumbering, heavy dinosaur body to the flight-adapted bird body plan is one of many fascinating episodes ...
Ancient Origins

Question of How Hannibal Got His Elephants Across the Alps Answered

In 218 BC, the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca achieved one of military history's most extraordinary feats - leading an ...
BBC Wildlife

‘How did the elephant become so big?’ New Chris Packham-fronted BBC TV series uncovers the secrets of evolution

How did the elephant become so big? Why do dolphins have such a huge brain? These are just some of the puzzles that Chris Packham hopes to solve in his new BBC TV series, Evolution. Each episode in ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

Energy costs of Hannibal’s alpine crossing

Hannibal crossed the Alps with a large army containing 37 war elephants in 218 BC. Details of his route have scholars ...
IFLScience

How These Caves Alerted The World To Australia’s Unusual Megafauna And Helped Inspire Darwin’s Theory Of Evolution

The caves, which are in New South Wales, have played an enormous role in Australian palaeontology and remain an active ...
The Guardian

Gee, whiz: elephant relieves itself on floor of Texas Republican convention

Four-ton Paige, brought in as surprise for attenders, made gushing debut after governor finished keynote speech An African elephant weighing roughly 4 tons that was brought to the Texas Republican ...
New York Post

Bronx Zoo’s Happy the Elephant, behind infamous ‘person’ lawsuit, euthanized

Happy the Elephant, the beloved Bronx Zoo icon who proved the incredible intelligence of her species and was the center of a “human” rights case, was euthanized Tuesday. The 55-year-old Asian elephant ...
NBC News

Linh Mai the baby elephant makes her Earth Day debut at the National Zoo

WASHINGTON — This year, spring showers brought a special April flower to Washington, D.C. — a 2-month-old Asian elephant named Linh Mai, or "spirit blossom" in Vietnamese. Subscribe to read this story ...
NBC Washington

Baby elephant Linh Mai to make debut at National Zoo

A new elephant calf makes her debut at the National Zoo on Tuesday, in celebration of Earth Day! The Asian elephant, Linh Mai, is the first one born at the zoo in nearly 25 years. Linh Mai was born in ...
Live Science

Human ancestors butchered and ate elephants 1.8 million years ago, helping to fuel their large brains

Imagine a creature nearly twice the size of a modern African elephant (which can weigh up to 6,000kg [13,000 lbs]). This was Elephas (Paleoxodon) recki, a prehistoric titan that roamed the landscape ...
The Conversation

How to eat an elephant: fossil find in Tanzania shows oldest signs of butchering these giant mammals

Carcass of adult African elephant. By Geraldshields11 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, , CC BY-SA Imagine a creature nearly twice the size of a modern African elephant (which can weigh up to 6,000kg). This ...