Elephants display remarkable emotional responses to death. Studies reveal they recognize their own kind and interact with deceased members....

Field rangers observed fewer tusked female elephants. Decades of ivory hunting in Gorongosa National Park favored tuskless survivors. This ...

Shovel-tusked elephants, once an evolutionary puzzle, are now understood to have used their unique tusks and teeth to efficiently process s...

According to the Indian-origin high-schooler, her device is four times more effective than drones as it can detect poachers by analysing th...

Scientists have sequenced the complete genome of one of the world's most iconic animal families - elephants, and their relatives mammoths a...

A report launched Wednesday surveyed the price of ivory in markets across China over the last three years and found prices had dropped from...

The female elephant was apparently attacked by a male elephant, according to wildlife officials at the sanctuary.

Tripura government will set up an elephant reserve at Gandhari in Gomati district for better conservation of the jumbos whose population wa...

Uttarakhand, known as one of the safest abodes of the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) in Southeast Asia, is fast emerging as an important ...

A white elephant offers its own tusks to a distraught hunter in the Ajanta mural. It’s an episode from the Buddhist parable of six-tusked e...

In yet another elephant poaching case in north Bengal this year, carcass of a full-grown jumbo, with its head missing, was found on the out...

Kerala Wildlife department is mulling a proposal to set afire a huge pile of ivory at its disposal to pre-empt its passage into the hands o...

Mythological Mahabharat's Abhimanyu might have lost the battle and his way out of Chakrayuvya ( circled fort), but this 47 year old pachyde...

An adult elephant has been found dead in Nagarahole national park and its tusk has gone missing exposing the lack of patrolling in the tige...

The death of an elephant due to formation of worms in its stomach has become a cause of concern for the Bhadra wildlife wing. The officials...

Two more elephants died in Ganjam jungle on Sunday after they allegedly came into contact with electric wires.

A 40-year-old sweeper was arrested from Dadar in central Mumbai for allegedly possessing two elephant tusks collectively worth Rs four lakh...