the Nature of Things team discovered Jumbo was an impressive 3.2 metres tall. Although this was smaller than Barnum claimed, it was still 20% bigger than the average height of elephants his age ...

Getty Images The giant egg is equivalent in volume to 150 chicken eggs Elephant birds were once a common sight on Madagascar. They weighed at least half a tonne, stood at around 3m tall and laid ...

Eurasia and Africa were once populated by 13-tonne, 4 metre tall elephants, but their evolution has long remained a puzzle. A ...

The 28-year-old Sreekrishnapuram Vijay, standing 10 feet tall, is one of only ten captive elephants in the state to have proper ownership certificates issued by the Kerala Forest Department ...

As they crossed the treacherous 150m-tall Haew Narok - or Hell's Falls - a baby slipped and the others fell trying to save it. Though the loss of 11 elephants isn't catastrophic to the species ...