The Bronx Zoo was just named among the “worst zoos” for elephants in North America by animal rights group In Defense of Animals over the “cruel confinement” of its Asian elephants.

Focus: Studying the fossil origins of the Asian elephant, and the status of living subspecies such as the Borneo elephant. Museum researchers are studying the morphology of Borneo elephants, an ...

An expert on Asian elephants is sounding the alarm about “elephant sanctuaries” after a tourist was killed while visiting one in Thailand. Blanca Ojanguren García, 22, a law student at the ...

The court rejected a case to send five African elephants to a sanctuary, saying they have no legal right to demand release ...

An expert on Asian elephants is sounding the alarm about "elephant sanctuaries" after a tourist was killed while visiting one in Thailand. Blanca Ojanguren García, 22, a law student at the ...

We will address these differences in detail so that you can learn how to tell the difference between African elephants and Asian elephants. Keep reading to learn more about these gentle giants now!

Elephants have long captured human imagination in art and culture, and scientists have long sought to understand them. Scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) study African ...

According to the nonprofit World Animal Protection, Thailand is home to 15% of the 52,000 Asian elephants currently living in the wild. According to the nonprofit, Asian elephants are an ...