While real life elephants can’t fly, they certainly have enormous ears. The African elephant, for instance, has the largest ...

"Different elephants have different kinds of culture, as well as personalities." This is an Inside Science story. Cooperation lies at the beating heart of most societies. For Asian elephants in a ...

We almost don't want to ruin the surprise, but heads up: This is the cutest thing you'll watch all day. The video aptly tells us to, "Wait for it!" and we weren't disappointed. As the caption explains ...

Elephants wear their biology in plain sight. Those sweeping ears are not a decorative afterthought but a set of oversized ...

African savanna elephants communicate more like humans than previously thought, new research shows—opening up new possibilities for elephant cognition. African savanna elephants walk roam the Okavango ...

Elephants are considered one of the smartest species of mammal in the animal kingdom, but a new study says they mourn their dead, even if they did not have a strong relationship with them. The ...

Researchers of the University of Turku, Finland, have studied a timber elephant population in Myanmar and discovered that Asian elephant personality manifests through three different factors. The ...

Wild African elephants may address each other using individualized calls that resemble the personal names used by humans, a new study suggests. While dolphins are known to call one another by ...

Find out which animals live the longest and what clues this gives us for potentially slowing down human aging.

Scientists have recently shed some light on exactly why elephants, one of the biggest animals on the planet, paradoxically experience unusually low rates of cancer. The research found these remarkable ...