The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust recently rescued the sweetest little baby elephant and formally introduced her to their ...

Baby elephants are great at making playtime fun. They’re a lot like human toddlers —they love to get dirty, splash in puddles ...

Like modern elephants, their extinct relatives likely lived in matriarchal groups. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. More than a ...

On Wednesday "Nightly News" aired a report from special correspondent Chelsea Clinton featuring naturalist Daphne Sheldrick (above), who has been working for decades to preserve Kenya's wildlife. The ...

Fossilized footprints found on a beach in southern Spain betray what may have been a nursery for an extinct species of elephant. The track-rich coastal site, which scientists have dubbed the ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo, in Washington, D.C., has announced one of its elephants is pregnant, the first time a baby elephant will be born at the zoo in 25 years. The zoo says 12-year-old Nhi ...

Chaimu the elephant never forgets a friend. The organization took in Chaimu and helped her build up her strength again at its orphaned elephant nursery in Nairobi. Once Chaimu was more independent, ...

Elephants do everything as a herd. They eat at the same time, take naps together, and roam the lands side by side. The mothers even share parenting duties, caring for each other’s babies as if they ...

Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is caring for the young animals at its Nairobi Nursery and plans to return them to the wild once the ...

Baby elephants might grow to be one of the largest land animals in the world, but they are only around 200 to 300 pounds when they are born. Did you know that young elephants are called calves? Or ...