Read more: 13 New Animal Species That Were Discovered In 2024 While all elephant species are considered endangered, the ...

After Center action, in 2021 New York upheld a state ban on ivory and rhino horn sales; we're still fighting hard against all trophy hunting. Finally, elephants were officially recognized as two ...

Genetic research has raised the possibility that the two classic forms of elephant in Africa are separate species rather than subspecies of ... and anatomical data are needed to correctly classify all ...

(CNN)-- Scientists have discovered a new species of elephant, and it's been right under their noses the whole time. A paper published Tuesday in the PLoS Biology scientific journal shows that ...

for the first time since Linnaeus named the species in 1758, a type specimen (lectotype) for the Asian elephant Elephas maximus. The elephants of north-east Borneo present an interesting case.

At the same time, it is officially identifying African elephants as two distinct species: savanna elephants and forest elephants. The reclassification — part of an update to IUCN’s Red List of ...

Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) are an iconic species of the Southern Ocean. But with rapid environmental changes in their ocean home, the seals’ population range has been shifting.