Modern elephants are impressive, but their extinct relatives were far stranger. This documentary explores prehistoric proboscideans like Deinotherium, Platybelodon, and massive mastodons that once ...

Thousands of years ago, early hunter-gatherers returned regularly to Tagua Tagua Lake in Chile to hunt ancient elephants and take advantage of other local resources, according to a new study.

Scientists have discovered the earliest evidence of animal butchery by humans in India. During the late middle Pleistocene, between 300 and 400 thousand years ago, at least three ancient elephant ...

Elephants are the largest land animals worldwide, used in tourism in several countries, and are often gentle to humans despite their gigantic sizes. However, the elephant population has fallen greatly ...

Elephant poaching has continued unabated and this is threatening the tourism industry, one of Kenya’s biggest foreign exchange earners. Only about 30,000 elephants exist in the country, down from ...

* Central African forest elephants risk extinction * Asian demand, widespread logging, more weapons to blame * Forest elephant ivory especially prized By Tansa Musa YAOUNDE, April 26 (Reuters) - ...

Namibian desert elephants fear humans, but drought forces them to seek water near settlements. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Fossilized footprints of Homo heidelbergensis located in Lower Saxony represent the oldest known footprints in Germany. The 300,000-year-old site ...