Elephants avoid wasting energy during their epic journeys
Similarly, water sources play a key role in where they choose to go. However, individual elephants can respond to water ...
How animals shape the planet in surprising ways
Hundreds of animals, from tiny ants to mighty hippos, are shaping the Earth's surface as powerfully as floods and storms.
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Which animals live the longest?
Asian elephants are the largest land animals in the world. They can live up to 70 years in captivity and around 60 years in the wild. Social and family-oriented, these elephants face endangerment ...
Scots slaughtered countless elephants: a new study aims to save them
They were men of iron nerve, unerring aim and, gazed at through a modern lens, it seems they were also capable of unbearable cruelty.
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Whales evolved from Pakicetus, an ancient mammal found in Pakistan
One of the first cetaceans, Pakicetus, was a goat-sized creature that lived along the banks of lakes and rivers in ...
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Wildlife charity faces damages claim over elephant project in Africa linked to 12 deaths
The elephants were meant to be contained in the park, but the world’s largest land animals rarely respect man-made borders and have broken through fences to raid nearby small-scale farming ...