Elephants seem easy to figure out with their big bodies, long trunks, and always walking in slow groups. But they’re not simple animals. Behind the usual facts are habits, abilities, and instincts ...

The new “Dumbo” live-action movie that opens March 29 is one of the most anticipated films of the spring and everybody’s talking about it. So here are some cool things to know about real elephants, as ...

To celebrate, we picked 18 fun facts about the largest land mammal. For example, they "hug" their trunks to say hello to each other. An elephant's trunk weighs 400 pounds, but it can pick up things as ...

Sophia Waterfield is a reporter for Newsweek based at its London bureau. She has written for publications such as Metro UK, New Scientist, and Forbes.com, and has covered topics such as business ...

African elephant populations are sometimes thought to differ only by the location of the animals, but, evolutionarily speaking, forest and savannah elephants are as separate genetically as Asian ...

• At birth, an elephant calf typically weighs 230 pounds and stands over 2 ½ feet tall. Baby elephants are nearly blind at birth and rely upon their trunks and their mothers to help them. • A newborn ...

Feces, dung, poop: words that never fail to make a 12-year-old boy laugh. But they have no place in highly advanced scientific processes, right? Well, that’s where you’d be wrong. Researchers ...

• Elephants are the largest of all land animals in the world. • The life expectancy for female African elephants is approximately 40 years. The oldest known elephant lived to be 82. • The heaviest ...

An elephant's trunk is an incredibly versatile tool, containing over 150,000 muscle units and serving as a nose, hand, horn, and hose. Like humans, elephants can be left or right-tusked, favouring one ...