Focus: Studying the fossil origins of the Asian elephant, and the status of living subspecies such as the Borneo elephant. Museum researchers are studying the morphology of Borneo elephants, an ...

Genetic research has raised the possibility that the two classic forms of elephant in Africa are separate species rather than subspecies of Loxodonta africana. Museum research has uncovered ...

Elephants have over 800,000 nerves near the end of their trunk, which are thicker than all of the other sensory nerves in the elphant’s body! This allows them to use their trunk almost as a hand ...

The Elephant Fayre attracted 30,000 people in 1983, but was shut down a few years later after looting, violence and heavy drug use. It returned as the Port Eliot Literary Festival in the 2000s A ...

Humans' increasingly large footprint across the planet is forcing plants & animals to adapt and is affecting some species' evolutionary path.