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Younger female elephants take up new social positions when an older matriarch dies, forging links with other elephant daughters that mirror mothers' connections.

Cancer is less prevalent in elephants than in humans, in part because the giant animals have more copies of a gene that suppresses tumor growth, a new study finds.

You don't have to leave home to hang out with one of the world's most beloved tusked mammals.

Divers often swim past bizarre creatures of the deep, but an elephant-size, jellylike blob left a group of them mystified.

The biggest rodent to ever live had large front teeth that it used the way elephants use their tusks, new research shows.

The insatiable demand for ivory is causing a dramatic decline in the number of African elephants. Poachers are hunting the animal faster than it can reproduce, a new study finds.