Elephants are strong enough to knock over trees. But why do they do it, and how does it benefit the ecosystem?

A viral video showed an elephant gently checking on a woman during rain, melting hearts with its protective and caring gesture.

Cheered on by a crowd, it eventually wrapped its trunk around the gazelle’s horn and pulled it to safety! Watch the elephant pull the scared gazelle from drowning!

A heroic elephant acted quickly to save the life of a drowning gazelle at La Aurora Zoo in Guatemala City. The gazelle was unable to escape a body of water in the middle of the enclosure. When its ...

Due to this fascination, elephants can be found everywhere in popular media, children’s books, and of course, zoos! Another reason they are so beloved is due to their extremely unique and exaggerated ...

An elephant’s trunk serves a lot of important purposes: eating, drinking, and communication are some of the most common uses for trunks.

Elephants are among the largest mammals on Earth. They are loved by many for their intelligence and varied personalities.

The elephant will crush the food with its trunk, and then use its impressive suction power to pick it up. Elephants can then move their trunks to bring the food to their mouths. by reversing the ...

A bump in the elephant brain stem pointed scientists to the wrinkles on their trunks and the role those folds play in the animal’s life.

A multidisciplinary team of scientists has conducted a study of Asian and African elephant wrinkles to learn more about their purpose. In their study, published in the journal Royal Society Open ...

How The Elephant Got Its Trunk Watch on (via PBS Eons) Long-jawed proboscideans were doing pretty well for themselves. That is, until they were all rapidly replaced with proboscideans with long, ...