Elephants are vital to ecosystems. Learn interesting facts and how WWF works to protect them across Africa and Asia.

As part of its ongoing effort to enhance understanding of the human genome, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the National Institutes of Health, announced today that the ...

DNA pulled from the dung of African forest elephants has given experts a more accurate -- and higher -- population estimate ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Life scientists have long maintained that, based on body size, small organisms are more metabolically active than large organisms. But a new study led by Bai-Lian Li, professor of ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Botswana wildlife officials said on Monday that toxins produced by microscopic organisms called cyanobacteria had caused the deaths of 330 elephants this year. Since they were ...

BETHESDA, Md., Wed., Aug. 4, 2004 – As part of its ongoing effort to enhance understanding of the human genome, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the National Institutes of ...

Life scientists have long maintained that, based on body size, small organisms are more metabolically active than large organisms. But a new study led by an ecologist at UC Riverside shows that this ...