A New Company With a Wild Mission: Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth

With $15 million in private funding, Colossal aims to bring thousands of woolly mammoths back to Siberia. Some scientists are deeply skeptical that will happen.

ADN y suerte: la fórmula para reunir a una elefanta huérfana y su mamá

Nania ha sobrevivido a la separación de su familia de elefantes del bosque en Burkina Faso. Sus cuidadores esperan que las pruebas de ADN ayuden a devolverla a la naturaleza con su familia.

Reuniting an Orphan Elephant and Her Mom, Perhaps, With DNA and Luck

Nania beat the odds to survive separation from her forest elephant family in Burkina Faso. Her caretakers hope DNA testing may help return her to the wild with her family.

Reuniting an Orphan Elephant and Her Mom, Perhaps, With DNA and Luck

Nania beat the odds to survive separation from her forest elephant family in Burkina Faso. Her caretakers hope DNA testing may help return her to the wild with her family.

How the USDA is Failing America’s Captive Elephants

No matter what political views or affiliations people in the United States might have, most of them would agree that animal abuse is just plain wrong.

Environment News India

Electrocution threat to pachyderms in Odisha Conservationists have expressed deep concern over the recent spate of electrocution-induced elephant deaths in Odisha and sought for the government’s in…

When Rembrandt Met an Elephant

An exhibition in Amsterdam explores the wandering life and untimely death of Hansken, an Asian elephant who became a spectacle in 17th-century Europe.

Shrinking Elephants Once Called Sicily Home

New research suggests that in as little as 40 generations, elephants could have become dwarf size on the island off Italy’s boot.

What Has Four Legs, a Trunk and a Behavioral Database?

From tens of thousands of hours of observation, scientists have compiled a detailed library of African elephant behavior.

15 Chinese Elephants Are on a Long March North. Why, No One Knows.

The elephants have roamed 300 miles across southern China, in the longest movement recorded in the country by the animals. Researchers are mystified.

Elephant Trunks: Is There Anything They Can’t Do?

A new study highlights the impressive biomechanics and suction power of an elephant’s most defining appendage.