Fossil evidence confirms that a gigantic reptile, similar to the modern Komodo Dragon, lived four million years ago near ...

Imagine Europe tens of thousands of years ago: dense forests, large herds of elephants, bison and aurochs—and small groups of ...

Archaeologists uncover how early humans in Italy butchered elephants and forged survival from their bones 400,000 years ago.

Researchers often rely on fossil teeth for clues about what extinct animals ate. Giant ground sloths’ teeth have been tricky to analyze, though – until now.

During a remarkably warm period 400,000 years ago, early humans living near what is now Rome regularly butchered massive straight-tusked elephants, using both their meat and bones as vital resources ...

Researchers in Italy discovered 400,000-year-old evidence that ancient humans butchered elephants for food and tools. At the Casal Lumbroso site near Rome, they found hundreds of bones and stone ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Mammoths were not the only enormous beasts ancient humans hunted ...

Two tourists are speaking out after they managed to escape an angry elephant while on a canoe safari trip in Botswana, an incident that was caught on camera. In the video clip, an elephant protecting ...

The world's first vaccine trial against elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV)—a leading cause of death in young Asian elephants—is safe and triggers a strong virus-fighting immune response, ...

Tourists on a canoe safari in Botswana were lucky to survive a terrifying attack by a raging bull elephant that was caught on video in the Okavango Delta. Two couples in separate canoes were being ...

Elephants Queenie, Tillie, Princess Penny and Toni of the former Nay Aug Zoo will be memorialized in a mural going up in downtown Scranton. Artist Eric Bussart worked on the mural Wednesday underneath ...

The Fort Worth Zoo has announced the birth of a new baby elephant and is asking for the public’s help naming her. The female calf, weighing 250 pounds and standing 3 feet tall, was born Aug. 18.