An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. For more than a century, Vatsala stood. Through wars and heatwaves, bureaucracies and ...

An international team of biologists did a DNA and anatomy study on the pickled fetus that was the type specimen for the Asian elephant, Elephas maximus, and found it is actually an African ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) – The Cincinnati Zoo is set to unveil a new addition to the Harry and Linda Fath Elephant Trek starting Monday. Visitors will have the chance to explore an all-new area ...

An elephant calf stands with its mother Farha the day after it was born, on Easter Sunday, April 20, at Zurich Zoo in Zurich, Switzerland.