Berney LeBoeuf, in his book “Elephant Seals: Pushing the Limits on Land and at Sea,” recounts an incident from the 1960s, ...

Researchers analysed the genetic health of African elephants — Earth’s largest land animals — by looking at genome data for ...

Born in the early hours of a chilly February morning and weighing 308 pounds, Linh Mai is the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and ...

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Learn how Linh Mai, the first Asian elephant calf born at the Smithsonian in 25 years, is strengthening genetic diversity in ...

In 1902, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott spotted a large group of large black and white birds at Ross Island, Antarctica ...

The department says the tusks were trimmed to prevent structural imbalance that could strain the elephant’s head and jaw.

Centromeres act as the control centers of chromosomes, ensuring accurate genetic inheritance during cell division, yet they ...

The tusk treatment process for an elephant named Kelat was carried out in accordance with veterinary management procedures ...