Elephant news, features and articles

You don't have to leave home to hang out with one of the world's most beloved tusked mammals.

Divers often swim past bizarre creatures of the deep, but an elephant-size, jellylike blob left a group of them mystified.

In China, social media is changing ivory's social status.

Instead of sharpshooters, a sterilizing vaccine is now helping bring elephant populations under control.

The biggest rodent to ever live had large front teeth that it used the way elephants use their tusks, new research shows.

The insatiable demand for ivory is causing a dramatic decline in the number of African elephants. Poachers are hunting the animal faster than it can reproduce, a new study finds.