COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) — A 33-year-old African elephant named Malaika at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs received some help from firefighters after she was found lying on her ...

KOTA KINABALU: Investigations into the death of a female Bornean pygmy elephant found in an oil palm estate in Lahad Datu last month have found no evidence of wildlife crime, with results showing that ...

An elephant's trunk is a remarkable organ: a fusion of nose and upper lip, capable of movement via a dense network of muscles. It's strong enough to lift a log, and sensitive enough to perform ...

There is a lot we're still learning about the magnificent elephant, a creature that became a political animal after satirist Thomas Nast used it in cartoons in the 1870s. Correspondent Faith Salie ...

BETWEEN 1953 and 1955, I was serving with the Falkland Islands' Dependencies Survey in South Georgia and material was collected from the southern elephant seal, Mirounga leonina. Histological and ...

NILGIRIS: A makhna elephant was found dead, allegedly due to age-related ailments, on the Masinagudi-Theppakkadu road in the wee hours of Tuesday. The carcass of the animal aged 50 was spotted by the ...

BANGKOK (AP) -- A new taste for eating elephant meat - everything from trunks to sex organs - has emerged in Thailand and could pose a new threat to the survival of the species. Wildlife officials ...