While there are definitely some differences between the two, they are both mammals. Here’s what makes an elephant a mammal, including some facts you may not know about them. After a 22-month ...

It found that H5N1 spread efficiently among marine mammals. The outbreak in elephant seals was a stepping stone amid the first transnational spread of the virus in these species, extending across ...

An animal rights group brought a lawsuit on behalf of five elephants from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs in a move ...

Northern elephant seals sleep while drifting hundreds ... recording their brain activity as the seals swam for thousands of kilometres. The mammals, which reach depths of up to 2,500ft (760m ...

These dwarf mammals are remarkable examples of rapid evolutionary change. For example, some dwarf elephants - such as those that lived on Sicily and Cyprus - were only about one metre tall as adults, ...

An orphaned three-month-old baby Bornean elephant "Joe" The world’s smallest elephant is in danger of dying out as numbers reach just 1,000 in the wild, but there's hope it can be saved.

Lophiomys imhausi, also known as the crested rat, the maned rat, and the African crested rat, is a deadly rarity says Aoife ...

The largest land mammal on Earth, elephants embody the African landscape ... On top of this, loss of habitat, human-elephant conflict, and political instability provide significant long-term ...