It was a misty morning, soon to be scorching, like every day in Niger, when we arrived at the riverbank. I was 17, living in the capital, Niamey, while my mother worked as a diplomat at the US embassy ...

A Sumatran elephant found dead in Indonesia’s Central Aceh district in late February was the latest case of electrocution to kill one of Indonesia’s remaining critically endangered elephants, ...

A couple of years ago, Sarah Venter wrote an article gently picking apart alarm over the specter of Africa’s iconic baobabs ...

Parenthood is the ultimate journey, full of danger. Parenthood is the ultimate journey, full of danger. Lionesses teach their cubs how to survive by showing them how to tackle giant buffalo. Burrowing ...

No one casts a shadow over the history and legacy of Colombia quite like Pablo Escobar. Once the most powerful drug ...

Six people were killed and one child was seriously injured in the trampling on Friday, Feb. 13 Bailey Richards is a Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and interned ...

There are about 1,000 tiny hairs on an elephant’s rugged trunk, all designed to help the animal feel, a new study found. By Alexa Robles-Gil Every elephant has about 1,000 whiskers on its trunk. They ...

Queen Hippo can be tough to hit due to her high amount of Brace, which decreases damage taken. However, if you mouse over her tooltip, you’ll find a curious hint at the bottom: “Has heart problems…” ...

At a natural waterhole we stopped to look at the hippo before noticing an elephant approaching and a number of crocodiles in the mud. A nice amount of birdlife too with oxpeckers, queleas, doves, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wild bull elephant killed a tourist exercising near his tent on Monday at a national park in Thailand, making him the third ...

A wild bull elephant killed a tourist exercising near his tent on Monday at a national park in Thailand, making him the third victim of the animal. The man, identified as Jirathachai ...

Authorities are now considering what to do with the elephant Getty A tourist was killed by a wild bull elephant in Thailand's Khao Yai National Park on Monday, Feb. 2, according to news reports ...