African elephants range throughout the savannas of sub-Saharan Africa and the rainforests of Central and West Africa. The ...

Elephants are among the smartest, largest animals on the planet. With all that size and brain power, it should come as no ...

Our planet is filled with a dazzling variety of creatures that bump uglies to reproduce. Cats do it. Dogs do it. The birds and the bees definitely do it. But what were the first animals to have sex?

Some animals can have babies without the need to mate. Colloquially called a "virgin birth," this occurs through a process called parthenogenesis, wherein a female animal creates an embryo from an ...

The west African ebony tree is dependent on the smaller African forest elephant’s survival. Animalia CC The forest elephants of the Congo Basin are critically endangered and face extinction. They live ...