Scientists captured eerie photos of a mysterious elephant burial — that revealed how animals mourn and bury their dead in a poignantly similar way to humans. Warning: Some of the below images are ...

BHUBANESWAR: In a significant development in the Belghar elephant electrocution and burial case, the Forest department has arrested five more persons, all suspected to be poachers, for their alleged ...

The myth of elephant graveyards has pervaded popular culture, and recent observations of buried Asian elephant calves may finally give that legend some credence. In the research published in the ...

Elephants have long unsettled and fascinated observers with what looks uncannily like a funeral rite, lingering over carcasses, touching bones and even covering bodies with soil and branches. For ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Remains of a baby elephant, with its legs shown above the dirt. Asian elephants bury their calves with their legs poking out of ...

Recent research has unveiled a fascinating aspect of Asian elephant behavior in India’s northern Bengal region. According to a study published in the Journal of Threatened Taxa, there have been ...

MADIKERI: A wild elephant calf refused to leave the body of its dead mother at Anandpura near Ammathi in Karnataka's Kodagu district, delaying forest officials from inspecting the carcass. The body of ...