Why Europe Is Quietly Bringing Back an Animal That Went Extinct in 1627The last aurochs, an ancestor of modern cattle, vanished in Poland in 1627. However, a groundbreaking scientific effort is bringing these m...
11 May, 2026, 03.32 AM IST
Rainbow coloured phantom lakes appear beside Namibia’s Great White Place in stunning satellite imagesAstronauts captured a stunning display of vibrant, shimmering lakes in Namibia's Etosha Pan, a rare event following heavy flooding. These e...
08 May, 2026, 05.21 PM IST
The Oldest Elephant in the Herd Might Be Carrying a Map No One Else Can SeeElephant matriarchs, the experienced older females, lead their herds using incredible long-term memories. These memories guide them to vita...
25 Mar, 2026, 04.54 PM IST
Why Are Some Elephants Born Without Tusks Despite Their Natural Need for Them? The Evolutionary Puzzle UncoveredField rangers observed fewer tusked female elephants. Decades of ivory hunting in Gorongosa National Park favored tuskless survivors. This ...
09 Mar, 2026, 12.47 PM IST
Shovel-Tusked Elephants’ Teeth Puzzle Solved by PaleontologistsShovel-tusked elephants, once an evolutionary puzzle, are now understood to have used their unique tusks and teeth to efficiently process s...
08 Feb, 2026, 02.48 PM IST
India's first DNA elephant census finds 25% drop in population, warns of rising habitat lossIndia's first DNA-based elephant census reveals a nearly 25% population drop over eight years, estimating 22,446 elephants. The new scienti...
15 Oct, 2025, 05.52 PM IST
Elephants linked to India's culture, history: PM Modi"World Elephant Day is an occasion to appreciate the wide range of community efforts to protect elephants. At the same time, we reaffirm ou...
12 Aug, 2024, 10.27 AM IST
Tales of tooth: How elephant tusks evolved to adapt to changes in climate & dietary habitsModern elephants' diets consist of copious amounts of tough, fibrous, often low-quality fodder.
31 Oct, 2023, 09.46 AM IST
The Elephant Whisperers: Couple central to the Oscar-winning documentary lauded by IndiGo captain and passengersAdditional Chief Secretary Environment Climate Change & Forests from the government of Tamil Nadu, Supriya Sahu, shared a video of the coup...
25 Mar, 2023, 12.57 PM IST
Old homes threatened, Indian elephant moves to Haryana, Himachal12 Aug, 2017, 11.11 PM IST
No takers for 'white' elephantsForest officials are now at their wit's end to tackle the increasing human-elephant conflict in Karnataka.
30 Dec, 2015, 12.39 PM IST
After genome sequencing, scientists find 95% similarity in Asian, African elephantsScientists have also sequenced the 'transcriptome' – the complete set of RNA from a population of cells - of the Asian elephant for the fir...
18 Dec, 2015, 02.16 PM IST
- Indo-Bangla work on free jumbo route
Human migration may remain a contentious issue between India and Bangladesh, but not elephants. The two countries are working with their re...
06 Nov, 2015, 06.57 AM IST
- India, Bangladesh join hands for safe cross-border elephant migration
Human migration may remain a contentious issue between India and Bangladesh, but not for elephants.
05 Nov, 2015, 06.30 PM IST
Conservation of Asiatic Elephant will trickle down to Tigers: Wildlife PhotographerEfforts to conserve the Asiatic elephant will not only help conserve the natural forest land but also other animals including tigers, says ...
03 Sep, 2015, 03.36 PM IST
- Line transect method apt for elephant count: researchers
Researchers have strongly favoured the line transect method for estimating elephant population with greater accuracy in order to boost cons...
07 Jun, 2015, 11.04 AM IST
- Environment ministry sets up panel to study legal cover for elephant habitats
The environment ministry has constituted a committee to review how elephant reserves and corridors across the country can get a higher leve...
12 Feb, 2013, 02.31 AM IST