Every year in May, female elephant seals leave the beaches in California where they gave birth, nursed young, and molted, to embark on a seven-month foraging migration across the North Pacific Ocean.

For as long as I can remember my mother and father smoked cigarettes and he sometimes would smoke a cigar on special occasions. My dad was a very active hard working kind of guy. He worked for the ...

Tourists feeding wild elephants may seem innocent or even compassionate, but a new 18-year study reveals it s a recipe for disaster. Elephants in Sri Lanka and India have learned to beg for snacks ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pittsburgh zoo says a baby elephant that had a feeding tube inserted to help it gain weight has been euthanized. Officials at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium announced Wednesday ...

A female elephant seal looks over the pile of seals with whom she shares the beach. Christine Heinrichs Adult female elephant seals and male and female juveniles occupy the beach at Piedras Blancas ...

As Kenya's human population grows and farmland spreads, wild animals are increasingly pushed into smaller and fragmented ...

India’s loneliest elephant died of rare virus after decades of isolation in zoo - A month after African elephant’s death, autopsy report finds he had caught a rare rodent-borne virus ...

Technically a large island, Phuket is Thai for “hill” and features lush landscapes, luxe resorts and party beaches that entice millions of tourists (and A-listers from Leonardo DiCaprio to Kim ...

Millions of years ago, countless massive plant-eating creatures known as megaherbivores roamed the planet’s rainforests during the Pleistocene era. “These results help reinforce our understanding that ...