Hyped as ‘the biggest elephant’ in the world, Jumbo was met by a record-breaking crowd and hauled up Broadway in his crate. More than a century after his death, mystery still swirls around Jumbo.

Prehistoric humans are under suspicion of wiping out the largest birds that ever lived ... According to scientists, it's evidence that the elephant birds of Madagascar were hunted and butchered ...

Other than keeping them alive, it is hard to see the contribution of most elephant training centres to the conservation of elephants in the wild. To keep the captured elephants alive, almost every ...