Elephant

Company Trying to Resurrect a Mammoth Makes a Stem Cell Breakthrough

The ‘de-extinction’ company Colossal Biosciences has taken a step toward its hairy elephant—erm, mammoth.

Biology Isaac Schultz Mar 6

Check Out the Incredible Winners of a World Wildlife Day Children’s Art Contest

The International Fund for Animal Welfare's Youth Art Contest has some stunning finalist entries.

Biology Isaac Schultz Mar 5

Photo: Daniel Fisher, University of Michigan.

30,000-Year-Old Tusk Reveals Male Mammoths’ Horny Aggression

New research finds that mammoths experienced musth, a phenomenon that sends modern elephants into a frenzy.

Biology Isaac Schultz May 3

Elephants Might Be Self-Domesticated, Scientists Argue

A new paper makes the case that elephants have evolved to become generally social and friendly all on their own, much like humans and bonobos.

Health Ed Cara Apr 4

Drought Is Killing Zebras, Elephants, and Wildebeest in East Africa

An ongoing dry spell is endangering some of the continent's most iconic wildlife.

Conservation Molly Taft Nov 8

Photo: Eric Bronson, Michigan Photography

13,000-Year-Old Tusk Reveals Life of ‘Fred,’ a Mastodon Who Died in Battle

Fred was killed on an Ice Age mating ground. Scientists now know quite a bit about the animal's life and travels.

Biology Isaac Schultz Jun 14

Illustration: Jorge González (Wikimedia Commons)

This Elephant-Like Giant Roamed South America for 2 Million Years

Three new papers describe Notiomastodon, an elephant relative that's long been in the shadow of its more famous cousin, the woolly mammoth.

Biology Jeanne Timmons Jan 25

Ivory Poaching Blamed for Rise of Tuskless African Elephants

Elephants without tusks are far less likely to be killed by poachers, in what is becoming a distinct—but possibly temporary—evolutionary advantage.

Conservation George Dvorsky Oct 21

Photo: Archives of the Gemmellaro Geological Museum

Ancient Elephants Quickly Shrank Into Dwarfs on the Island of Sicily, DNA Suggests

The shrinking process would be like if humans became as small as rhesus monkeys.

Biology Ed Cara Jun 22

Eleven Elephants Were Found Dead in Zimbabwe And No One Knows Why

Park authorities in Zimbabwe are investigating the mysterious death of 11 elephants in the western region of the country after ruling out cyanide poisoning and poaching, according to a Sunday Associated Press report. The carcasses were first discovered on Friday in Pandamascue Forest, between Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe’s largest natural reserve, and Victoria Falls. The…

Earther Alyse Stanley Aug 30

Big Game Hunter Crushed to Death by Elephant

According to a report from South African news outlet News24, a 51-year-old professional big game hunter met his demise on Friday when he was crushed by an elephant. And hey, I’m sure the possibility of that happening is what made his game so “fun.” https://gizmodo.com/africas-elusive-forest-elephants-are-being-poached-at-a-1792580605 Theunis Botha, 51, ran a professional hunting safari service that…

Tech News Rhett Jones May 21

Whipsnade Zoo Has A Baby Elephant With The Tiniest Little Trunk

After a 22 month long gestation period, an elephant at the ZSL Whipsnade Zoo in England gave birth to the most adorable baby boy ever. The gestation period is so long, in part, so that the infant can do things like walk around on its own almost as soon as its born. The birth, according…

Biology Jason G. Goldman Sep 23

Guy waves his hand to stop the attack of a charging elephant

Elephants are really dangerous animals. It is good advice to stay as far as possible from them because of their seemingly random charges. Unless you are this guy and you can calm the animal down thanks to your magic hand waving (and balls of steel.) I can imagine him saying “YOU SHALL NOT PASS!” SPLOID…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Jun 13

Do Wild Animals Get Drunk and High On Purpose?

In South Africa, local legend has it that the elephants like to get drunk. They seek out the marula tree, overindulge on its sweet fruits, and enjoy the intoxicating effects of the slightly fermented juice. Tales of the tipsy pachyderms go back at least two centuries. In the 1830s, a French naturalist called Adulphe Delegorgue…

Biology Jason G. Goldman Jun 1

Celebrate Earth Day With Baby Elephants

Every day, poachers kill 96 elephants in Africa. That’s something to keep in mind today, the 45th Earth Day. The celebration was first proposed in 1969 at a UNESCO conference as a day to recognize the environment and the hope for world peace. In honor of this year’s Earth Day, the 96 Elephants Campaign, together…

Biology Jason G. Goldman Apr 22

Baby Elephant Wanders Into South African Living Room, Has A Snack

A 10-day-old African elephant (Loxodonta africana) somehow became separated from its herd and wandered into a house at the Thula Thula Private Game Reserve in Zululand, South Africa. Above: The elephant herd at the Thula Thula Game Reserve. You’ll want to expand it to really see the details. The female infant has been named “Tom,”…

Biology Jason G. Goldman Apr 2

This Elephant Playing With A Ball Will Just Melt Your Heart

Just in case your cold, cold heart needed any more evidence that other animals can have fun, watch this video of Beco, a 5-year-old elephant at the Columbus Zoo, play with a ball. Related: Why do animals like to play? [Columbus Zoo]

Biology Jason G. Goldman Mar 31

Origami Master Makes a Life-Size Elephant From a Single Sheet of Paper

Origami artist Sipho Mabona just pulled off an incredible feat of paper folding, turning a single 50 foot by 50 foot sheet of paper into a life-size paper elephant standing more than 10 feet tall. It was no doubt a painstaking process, but watching the artist and his team in process is strangely soothing. While…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich Mar 11

This life-sized origami elephant was made from a single sheet of paper

Origami artist Sipho Mabona and his crew spent four weeks carefully folding a 50-by-50-foot sheet of paper into a 10-foot-tall elephant sculpture, showing the artistic potential of a single sheet of paper. Top image via My Modern Met. Mabona funded his White Elephant project through IndieGoGo, and had a pair of cameras installed in the…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 11

The Cthulhuphant: Great animal hybrid, or the greatest animal hybrid?

If I could choose any animal to grace my family’s coat of arms, it would be this trunktacled elephant/octopus hybrid (which we will refer to as the cthulhuphant), created by Puerto Rican artist Alexis Diaz. The mural, which was unveiled in London this week on Hanbury Street off Brick Lane, took one week and thousands…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jul 27

Elephant

Company Trying to Resurrect a Mammoth Makes a Stem Cell Breakthrough

Check Out the Incredible Winners of a World Wildlife Day Children’s Art Contest

30,000-Year-Old Tusk Reveals Male Mammoths’ Horny Aggression

Elephants Might Be Self-Domesticated, Scientists Argue

Drought Is Killing Zebras, Elephants, and Wildebeest in East Africa

13,000-Year-Old Tusk Reveals Life of ‘Fred,’ a Mastodon Who Died in Battle

This Elephant-Like Giant Roamed South America for 2 Million Years

Ivory Poaching Blamed for Rise of Tuskless African Elephants

Ancient Elephants Quickly Shrank Into Dwarfs on the Island of Sicily, DNA Suggests

Eleven Elephants Were Found Dead in Zimbabwe And No One Knows Why

Big Game Hunter Crushed to Death by Elephant

Whipsnade Zoo Has A Baby Elephant With The Tiniest Little Trunk

Guy waves his hand to stop the attack of a charging elephant

Do Wild Animals Get Drunk and High On Purpose?

Celebrate Earth Day With Baby Elephants

Baby Elephant Wanders Into South African Living Room, Has A Snack

This Elephant Playing With A Ball Will Just Melt Your Heart

Origami Master Makes a Life-Size Elephant From a Single Sheet of Paper

This life-sized origami elephant was made from a single sheet of paper

The Cthulhuphant: Great animal hybrid, or the greatest animal hybrid?

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