Researchers unveiled on Monday what they called the most comprehensive assessment of the status of the two African elephant ...

"Everyone in the control room let out a loud 'Oooooh!' at the same time. We were all enchanted," a researcher said.

Advances in technology that enabled the discovery of a new species by California scientists may lead to a better ...

Elephants are known for their excellent memory. They can remember water sources, migration routes, and even other elephants they’ve met years ago.

In other cases, animals can appear to have simply disappeared — unless you know where to look. In 1956, researchers discovered a new species of marine worm that lives in coral burrows off the southern ...

Habitat loss and poaching have driven dramatic declines in African elephants, but it is challenging to measure their numbers ...

Over two decades ago, a team from the University of Jammu uncovered the giant fossilized skull of an extinct elephant species in India’s Kashmir Valley. The remains were uncovered along with 87 ...

Mpox is a disease caused by the highly infectious monkeypox virus. It's quite easily passed on from one person to another.

In 2023, a highly pathogenic bird flu leapt to seals in South America, killing some 17,000 elephant seal pups (about 97 ...

Elephants have long captured human imagination in art and culture, and scientists have long sought to understand them. Scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) study African ...

But what about the rest of the animal kingdom–how do non-human animals understand and respond to death? The answer depends on species, individual, and circumstance. “There’s a wide variety ...