Elephants have long captured human imagination in art and culture, and scientists have long sought to understand them. Scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) study African ...

This story appears in the August 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The royalty of India—Hindu and Muslim—understood long ago that power was best wielded from the back of an elephant.

It's time to grab your swim trunks—pun intended—and head over to Miami Beach to see elephants, stomping through the sand to raise awareness about conservation efforts. The herd, an art ...

A new study by researchers in Berlin shows that elephants use their trunks in highly dexterous and creative ways to control and play with the flow of water from hoses.

CBS News Miami's Lisa Petrillo was at South Beach, which has been transformed into an extraordinary canvas with Art Week, including The Great Elephant Migration, a stunning art installation that's ...

A second elephant sculpture has been targeted by vandals a day after a charity art trail was launched. The piece, one of more than 70 elephants on show in parks, streets and open spaces in ...