Elephants born into stressful situations have fewer offspring and age faster, researchers at the University of Sheffield have found. Scientists discovered that Asian elephants born during times when ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Linh Mai in the elephant enclosure at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington D.C. Swarna, an older female elephant, is ...

A female Asian elephant calf has been born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Washington, DC, the first in almost a quarter of a century. The baby, whose ...

A tiny—well, 308-pound—addition has arrived at one of the nation’s most beloved zoos, and she already has a reputation for being sassy. A critically endangered Asian elephant calf named Linh Mai was ...

These gentle giants are not only powerful in size but also remarkable in mind. African elephants are highly intelligent, emotional, and social animals. They live in close family groups, care deeply ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo, in Washington, D.C., has announced one of its elephants is pregnant, the first time a baby elephant will be born at the zoo in 25 years. Subscribe to read this story ad ...

There’s a new superstar in the making at the National Zoo: Linh Mai, an Asian elephant calf, was born Feb. 2. The smallest member of the zoo’s herd, which includes her parents, Spike and Nhi Linh, ...

The Fort Worth Zoo's elephant dynasty just got a tiny heavyweight. On Friday, the zoo announced the birth of a female Asian elephant, the first such calf born there since 2013. The not-so-little ...

A mother elephant recently gave birth to twins in Sri Lanka. And that’s much rarer than you’d think. Twenty-four-year-old Surangi, an elephant at the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage, gave birth to two ...

The Smithsonian's National Zoo has welcomed its first baby elephant in almost 25 years, and she's already making friends ahead of her public debut. The Washington, D.C., zoo first announced mom Nhi ...