The emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal are now both Endangered, according to The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™.

A 1500-year-old stone-and-brick tank on Elephanta shows advanced rainwater storage and hints at the island’s role in global ...

The list of feats Andrew Schulz has witnessed an elephant perform with its trunk is as long as, well, an elephant’s trunk. These powerful proboscises are strong enough to push over 900 pound trees and ...

Mlilo, a 22-year-old African elephant, is expecting a calf, the zoo announced. The baby is expected to arrive in the fall -- likely September -- 2026. This will be Mlilo's third calf, and her last ...

An eagerly awaited Asian elephant calf has made her grand arrival at the Smithsonian's National Zoo. The baby was born Feb. 2 at 1:15 a.m. after a 21-month gestation to parents Nhi Linh and Spike, the ...

Iain Douglas-Hamilton was a pioneering elephant researcher who spent nearly 60 years studying Africa’s elephants, beginning in Tanzania’s Lake Manyara National Park with the first scientific study of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We're having a baby! Everyone is thrilled to hear that the National Zoo will soon have a new little elephant for the first time in ...

We're having a baby! Everyone is thrilled to hear that the National Zoo will soon have a new little elephant for the first time in more than two decades. We got to see a few clips of the soon-to-be ...

DNA pulled from the dung of African forest elephants has given experts a more accurate—and higher—population estimate for the elusive animal, but the species remains critically endangered, a study ...

The Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute announced on Nov. 24 that one of its Asian elephants is expecting, marking the first time an elephant calf will be born at the zoo in ...

Nhi Linh, a 12-year-old Asian elephant, is expecting her first calf with Spike, a 44-year-old male elephant Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, ...

What can an elephant seal – a 4,000 pound, bellowing monstrosity that looks like a melted Yankee Candle – teach us about the world? Plenty, it turns out. “The animals are amazing. I mean, everything ...