Which footprint is bigger? An elephant's or a human's? It depends on how you measure it. As humanity leaves its mark on more of the African savanna, we are increasingly stepping on the toes of wild ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A herd of wild elephants walk through the savanna of Tarangire National Park in Tanzania, East Africa© MPH Photos/Shutterstock.com ...

During warmer periods of the Middle Pleistocene, ancient humans in Italy were in the habit of butchering elephants for meat and raw materials, according to a study published October 8, 2025 in the ...

The escalating conflict between humans and wild elephants in the Garo Hills of Sherpur district has emerged as a serious ...

Archaeologists uncover clues to the lives of giant elephants and early humans who shared Israel’s Hula Valley nearly 800,000 years ago.

Long before ancient Rome was the city of gladiators, emperors, and espresso bars, it was a hotbed of elephant butchery. Roughly 400,000 years ago, a band of early humans came across a creature that ...

A remarkably preserved elephant tooth previously recovered from Gesher Benot Ya'aqov (GBY-NBA)—a prehistoric site in northern Israel where early humans made stone tools some 700,000 years ago—has now ...

Learn more about how elephants have been using non-verbal gestures to communicate with humans, the first of this complex method documented in non-primates. A point, a wave, a thumbs-up, or a nod of ...

By Uditha Jayasinghe and Thilina Kaluthotage GALGAMUWA, Sri Lanka, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Clad in his khaki wildlife officer’s ...

Massive international investment in large-scale infrastructure projects in southern Asia will increase human-elephant conflict and cause more deaths on both sides unless much greater care is taken.

Scientists in Thailand have discovered that Asian elephants pay remarkably close attention to how humans position their bodies, but not quite in the way you might expect. The finding suggests these ...

A herd of wild elephants walk through the savanna of Tarangire National Park in Tanzania, East Africa© MPH Photos/Shutterstock.com Elephants have been targeted for financial gain for decades. Both ...