An ancient animal bone discovered in a quarry about 20 years ago has been donated to a museum. The bone from a palaeoloxodon - an extinct animal also known as a straight-tusked elephant which is ...

Some of the dioramas in the museum, for example ... It's the difference between seeing African mammals in a nature program and seeing them in the wild—or at least in our dioramas.

The National Museum of Natural History recently spruced up its iconic African elephant mount, which has greeted visitors ...

Genetic research has raised the possibility that the two classic forms of elephant in Africa are separate species rather ... africana. Museum research has uncovered populations with a mosaic of ...