Have you ever wondered what the world’s largest land animal might be? While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and some marine life (blue whales) might be heavier, one animal stands alone ...

A warm 'interglacial' period roughly 700,000 years ago saw straight-tusked elephants inhabit mild-tempered forests in the UK. Adult males could reach 13 feet at the shoulder and weighed around 13 ...

At least two of them qualify as “super-tuskers,” with one or more tusks weighing 100 pounds. Among the five killed, only one has been identified — an elephant named Gilgil. In an unprecedented ...

Professor Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser standing next to a life-size reconstruction of an adult male European straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) in the State Museum of Prehistory in ...

Elephants were wise, with such a keen sense of direction that they’d guide a wayward traveler to any destination. They had long lives and remarkable memory, trunks of great dexterity, and tusks ...