Archaeologists in Spain found a single elephant bone among Carthaginian weapons, offering rare physical evidence linked to ...

Although elephants appear in ancient texts, on coins, and in depictions of the legendary ...

Everything we know about these famous war animals has come from textual sources, so this is a significant new find.

P. antiquus grew as large as 13 feet tall at the shoulder and weighed over 29,000 pounds. At a fossil site in Rome, Italy paleontologists uncovered a set of straight-tusked elephant remains dating ...

At one time, poaching was the biggest threat to elephants in Africa. As these majestic creatures were slaughtered by the thousands for their tusks, it became abundantly clear that African elephants ...

Archaeologists excavating a site in Córdoba, Spain, have identified a small elephant bone in a layer dating to the era of the ...

As with all life forms, elephants have evolved over time from ungulates to near ungulates or subungulates as they are called today. Their unusually shaped feet are quite similar to that of ungulates, ...

In India, the process of training an elephant has changed little since ancient times. They captured elephants in the wild because they are difficult to breed and maintain for years in captivity. Male ...

Thousands of years ago, early hunter-gatherers returned regularly to Tagua Tagua Lake in Chile to hunt ancient elephants and take advantage of other local resources, according to a new study.

A small, 2,200-year-old elephant bone discovered at an ancient, fortified settlement in southern Spain may be the first direct archaeological evidence of the war elephants used by the legendary ...

A new study has uncovered the likely cause behind the mysterious disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Researchers have concluded that ...