More than a dozen Bornean elephants have been killed — including five beheaded — in Malaysia in the past 18 months, the ...

Elephants are the largest land mammals on earth with very few predators. These powerful animals can literally stomp ...

Drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds of their most captivating, majestic wild animals to feed desperately hungry people. In August, Namibia ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) – Poachers have slaughtered at least 200 elephants in the past five weeks in a patch of Africa where they are more dangerously endangered than anywhere else on Earth, wildlife ...

PRETORIA, South Africa — South Africa said Monday that it will start killing elephants to reduce their burgeoning numbers, ending a 13-year ban and possibly setting a precedent for other African ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A passenger train hit an elephant herd near a wildlife sanctuary in Sri Lanka, killing six of the animals, an official said on Thursday. Four babies and two adults died near ...

A recent study found that 47 percent of breeding female elephant seals on South Georgia, home to the world’s largest population of the marine mammal, have died in two years. H5N1 avian flu is ...

It's fall, which means you really have to keep an eye out for deer in the road, but depending on where you're driving, you also have to keep an eye out for elk, moose, bison, bear and the occasional ...

Elephants may die on their own out in the wild unremarkably all the time, but when we look at the members of the species who achieved great fame, we see a series of hard-to-believe deaths. Here are ...

A new report shows an increase in estimated forest elephant numbers, but this is a function of better surveying, and the ...