image: Two elephants greeting each other with gentle touch at the Addo Elephant National Park in south Africa. Elephants are highly social creatures, and have been documented to engage in many ...

Human culture and language may be the result of 'self-domestication': an evolutionary process that leads to less aggressive and more prosocial individuals. A research team argues that elephants -- ...

A new paper makes the case that elephants have evolved to become generally social and friendly all on their own, much like humans and bonobos. Reading time 3 minutes A group of scientists is making a ...

Scientists discovered this ancient elephant fossil on the island of Sicily. They said the elephant shrunk rapidly over a million years because of the constraints of the island. The tiny elephant, and ...