A young bull elephant in South Africa appears to have invented a game in which he uses his trunk to fling rocks at safari ...

A former South African game ranger said the safari guides made a near-fatal mistake that led to the terrifying attack by a ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Poachers killed an estimated 100,000 elephants across Africa between 2010 and 2012, a huge spike in the continent’s death rate of the world’s largest mammals because of an ...

Veteran CBS Sports sideline reporter Jenny Dell grabbed attention with her behavior during Saturday's Oregon vs. Indiana game ...

LIWONDE NATIONAL PARK, Malawi -- Half a dozen African elephants lay strewn on a riverside plain in Malawi, immobilized by darts fired from a helicopter in a massive project to move 500 elephants, by ...

Populations of the African forest and savanna elephant have declined sharply. The populations of Africa's elephants are now in more danger than they ever have been. The African forest elephant is now ...

Two tourists are recounting the terrifying moment an elephant charged their boat on a safari trip in southern Africa.Video ...

A Spanish tourist reportedly has been "trampled to death" by elephants in South Africa after he tried to get close to them to take pictures. The fatal incident involving the 43-year-old man happened ...

George Wittemyer receives funding from the U.S.A. National Science Foundation and Save the Elephants, a Kenya based non-profit organization. He is a professor at Colorado State University and serves ...

African savanna elephants weigh nearly twice as much as their forest counterparts, yet many have considered them merely different populations of the same species. But new genetic evidence finally puts ...

If you were a kid of a certain era obsessed with adventures in far-flung lands, nothing thrilled like the 19th-century Western exploration of Africa. Burton, Grant and Speke embarking from Zanzibar to ...

In 1876 Leopold II of Belgium decided to reinvent his small country as an imperial power. The vehicle for Belgium’s entry into the Scramble for Africa was the International African Association. The ...