Importantly, despite compelling genetic research concluding that two species of African elephants exist — forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) and savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) — Africa's ...

but elephants of ancient times are also natural wonders that extend the focus of current research back millions of years.

The forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is one of two living African elephant species, the other being the savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana). Historically, forest elephants thrived in the dense ...

It also examines why an understanding of ... On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Murray, London, 1859. de Queiroz, K. Ernst Mayr and the modern concept of species.

Savanna elephants are also endangered. And "declines over decades" have driven the species into the two highest categories of extinction threat. African elephants were previously assessed as one ...

They also often recognize fellow elephants that they have not encountered for a long time. But does their excellent long-term social memory also extend to members of other species? "There are ...

How are humans contributing to negative selection? It's a part of evolution that can also drive some species to extinction ... which is why one hypothesis describing these systems was named ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The intricate web of cracks and crevices that gives African elephants their distinctive look is, in fact, an essential ...

Elephants are intelligent creatures that adapt to food-limiting changes in the environment –such as drought, flooding, forest fires, and invasive species – by changing their own patterns of activity.

It's unclear whether they are headed back, or why they even ... China China's trekking elephants take well deserved rest Giant rhino fossils in China point to new species Mr Plotnik added that ...

Your support makes all the difference. A court in America is being asked to decide if elephants are considered to be the same as people in a ruling on the animals’ freedom. Missy, Kimba ...