African elephant feet are very cleverly designed ... In order to be able to walk on their tiptoes, Elephants have an angled skeleton in their feet. To help keep their footing the sole of their ...

A master showman, Barnum always claimed Jumbo was the biggest elephant in the world. But was he? By examining his skeleton our scientific team had the answer. In the end Jumbo: The Life of an ...

In May 1967, a group of six Williams College students read about Columbus the elephant, who was buried in Lenox, and enlisted the help of a well-known dowser to help ...

Using an ultra-high resolution mass spectrometer, bio-archaeologists were able to produce a near complete collagen sequence for the West Runton Elephant, a Steppe Mammoth skeleton which was discovered ...

Through his forgotten skeleton, they will gradually build a ... about elephants and sparked the first glimmers of interest in elephant behaviour. A century and a half later, wild elephants will ...