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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Origin stories aren’t just for comic-book superheroes, as a documentary about the evolution of animals including elephants and whales intends to show. The two-hour film will ...

Elephants weren’t always the gentle giants we know today – their ancestors were some of the strangest creatures to walk the Earth. In this video, we explore the bizarre evolutionary journey of ...

The largest land mammal of our time has an evolutionary story at least 60 million years in the making. On Monday, a new exhibit revealing the ‘secret lives’ of the trunked giants will open at New York ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks. The research was published ...

Scientists discovered this ancient elephant fossil on the island of Sicily. They said the elephant shrunk rapidly over a million years because of the constraints of the island. The tiny elephant, and ...