Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Over two decades ago, a team from the University of Jammu uncovered ...

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic, as ...

Wild African elephants may address each other using individualized calls that resemble the personal names used by humans, a new study suggests. While dolphins are known to call one another by ...

George Wittemyer receives funding from the U.S.A. National Science Foundation and Save the Elephants, a Kenya based non-profit organization. He is a professor at Colorado State University and serves ...

While many people are fascinated by nonhuman animals, most do not have the time, money, or opportunity to travel to remote natural habitats where these animals live freely. Instead, zoos relocate ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

From honeybees to elephants, here are six animals with female bosses. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Most animal societies are ...

Many types of plant, animal, and mammal species globally are at risk of extinction. Over 1 million species are threatened with extinction within the next few decades—an unprecedented rate, according ...

Animals that migrate face myriad threats to their survival, all of which have a common denominator: human activity. That’s according to a first-of-its-kind report published Monday by the Convention on ...

Our planet is home to some truly fascinating animals, from creatures that look like aliens to massive mammals and tiny insects. Every animal species on Earth has characteristics and a temperament that ...