The first seven cases of avian influenza were confirmed by preliminary testing at UC Davis and confirmatory testing by the ...

Quick Take Indonesia successfully completed a nationwide ban on elephant riding for 100 captive animals. The elephants in ...

Who needs to be tall when you are this strong? The elephant in this clip can’t quite reach the leaves at the top of the tree. So, does it give up? Absolutely not! It uses its huge size and strength to ...

The African bush elephant holds the world record for the mammal that clocks the fewest hours of sleep per night, dozing off in bursts that together add up to just two hours. But now, scientists have ...

Many of us would probably like to forget sitting through math classes in school. But let’s briefly travel back, just for a ...

H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed for the first time in northern elephant seal pups at Año Nuevo State Park in San Mateo County.

BELA-BELA, South Africa (AP) — Tuesday is World Elephant Day. Here are five things to know about the largest land animals on our planet. There are three species of elephants: the African savanna or ...

The outbreak marks the first cases of HPAI H5N1 in marine mammals in California and the first detection in northern elephant ...

"This is exceptionally rapid detection of an outbreak." ...

Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people ...