Elephants are slow to reproduce and take their time growing up, which makes them especially vulnerable to extinction. Twinning, or, having two babies per pregnancy, is extremely rare in elephants.

For more than a month, staff and volunteers had held a round-the-clock vigil watching a pregnant 24-year-old African elephant on a video monitor, and now they saw the time had come. The elephant ...

In nature the main goal of any plant or animal is to reproduce, to make the next generation of it species. This happens in an amazing amount of different ways. How did this elephant get here?

Being an elephant is no easy task. As massive herbivores weighing several tons, they must consume vast amounts of low-calorie vegetation every day. However, their sheer size means that moving ...