LOS ANGELES, CA – The Los Angeles Zoo has announced that its last two Asian elephants, Billy and Tina, will be moved to a larger, more naturalistic sanctuary at the Tulsa Zoo in Oklahoma, marking the ...

With surprising provincial unanimity, Parliament has advanced reforms to phase out South Africa’s captive lion industry. This is likely to set up a clash with the new environment minister, who is ...

After a four-year pause, hunting export quotas for high-value species in South Africa may return. Here's what's being ...

An elephant has about 1,000 whiskers on its trunk. Basile Morin via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-4.0 Elephants are famous for their dexterous trunks, which the animals use to eat, drink, trumpet and ...

Historical accounts of the Punic Wars—and many other ancient wars—often paint a picture of soldiers riding in on imposing "war elephants." Yet, no skeletal remains of these war elephants had ever been ...

Nearly two dozen people were killed and 15 were injured by a large wild bull elephant that went on a 10-day rampage through several towns in eastern India, terrorizing locals who reportedly climbed ...

For decades, scientists have debated whether early humans truly took on the largest animals around them or merely stumbled across the leftovers. Massive bones and stone tools often turn up side by ...

FIRST ON FOX: The State Department is pausing immigrant visa processing for 75 countries in an effort to crack down on applicants deemed likely to become a public charge. A State Department memo, seen ...

The Trump administration is halting immigrant visa processing for people from 75 countries, including Brazil, Iran, Russia and Somalia, the latest effort by officials to restrict legal immigration ...

Jan. 13 (UPI) --Indian officials are hunting a wild elephant with a single tusk that they said killed at least 20 people this month in one of Asia's biggest Sal forests. The deaths happened in the ...

Indian wildlife officers are hunting a rampaging wild elephant blamed for killing at least 20 people and injuring 15 others in the forests of Jharkhand, villagers and officials said Tuesday. The ...

Warren Buffett remained willing to pull off an elephant-sized deal in the final stretch of his tenure as Berkshire CEO. The company is awash in liquidity, with its cash hoard swelling to a record $381 ...