Elephants
Dung DNA reveals hidden population of endangered forest elephants, study finds
The species of elephant, important in helping rainforests to regenerate, is notoriously hard to assess since they are spread across remote, dense jungles in 22 African countries.
Ancient Roman site reveals early humans butchered straight-tusked elephant and crafted bone tools
Ancient DNA Reveals Mastodons Were Shaped by Ice Age Climate Swings
Three new 7.7-million-year-old elephant skulls unearthed in Turkey
First Temple period elephant-tusk ivories unearthed in Jerusalem
What do expensive ivory plaques from the First Temple period in Jerusalem unveil about the people who owned them?
Prehistoric elephant tusk found in kibbutz in southern Israel
The half-a-million-year-old complete tusk was discovered during a two-week excavation project aptly named "Operation Elephant."
Analysis of mastodon tusk reveals first evidence of seasonal migration
Using new isotopic and life-history analyses technology, scientists were able to reconstruct he landscape where the animal roamed during his adolescence and final years of his life.
Meet the elephants living in Israel 500,000 years ago
“Throughout hundreds of thousands of years, people were eating elephants,” Tel Aviv University Prof. Ran Barkai explained. “For this purpose, they developed specific tools.”
500 drunken elephants: The untold Hanukkah story with no Maccabees
A different kind of redemption from Greek tyranny
Animal-rights NGO persuades El Al to stop shipping hunting trophies
LA resident Aaron Raby will no longer be able to use El Al to fly his hunting trophies to the US after the airline joined 40 other carriers in similar ban
Warsaw zoo will administrate CBD to its elephants to reduce their stress
The lucky elephants chosen to take part in the first-of-its-kind pilot, are three African elephants that will be administrated with the liquid doses of CBD extract through their trunks.
Ramat Gan Safari elephant celebrates 46th birthday
Born on August 11, 1974, Yossi was a small baby elephant who grow up to mighty size, reaching the impressive height of 3.8 meters (12.46 feet) and weighing 7 tons.
Woolly mammoth skeleton found in lake in Russia's Arctic
Part of its skull, several ribs and foreleg bones, some with soft tissue still attached to them, were retrieved from Russia's remote Yamal peninsula above the Arctic circle on July 23
Elephants, hippos central to prehistoric human diet, Israeli scholars say
Two Israeli researchers have proposed a new theory about the prehistoric human diet and how its evolution led to significant cultural and technological developments.
