One of Africa’s last remaining “Super Tuskers” has passed away. Officials from the Amboseli National Park reported that Craig ...

Elephants are the largest land animals on Earth, but even they are not completely invincible. In rare situations, especially ...

A 1.78-million-year-old partial elephant skeleton found in Tanzania associated with stone tools may represent the oldest ...

Cynthia Moss, founder of Amboseli Trust for Elephants, named the iconic bull elephant “Craig’ as part of her long-term ...

After living briefly at a TV station in Mt. Pleasant, SC, in the 1950s, Susie Q the elephant worked in circuses across U.S.

The bull elephant who died on Saturday was named Craig. He lived in Amboseli National Park, a protected area in southern ...

As the largest land-based animals alive today, elephants have few predators. Their size, strength and tightly knit social structures make adult elephants exceptionally difficult targets, but there are ...

This story originally published in the September 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. The biologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton is walking up on an ...

Meet the African crested rat (Lophiomys imhausi), a rodent roughly the size of a small cat, about 360-530 mm long (head to tail) and weighing around 1 kg. It’s the only known mammal that acquires ...

FAIRHOPE, Pa. – A Washington, D.C.-based animal rights group that’s engaged in an ongoing legal battle with the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium has filed a petition in Somerset County court, alleging that ...