Hidden risk elephants face.

The largest genomic study of African elephants to date has found that both species – savanna and forest elephants – remain in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades.

Africa’s largest elephant DNA study reveals growing genetic isolation as habitats shrink, raising urgent concerns for ...

The African elephant population was traditionally reliant upon the ability to move around large areas in order to preserve ...

Habitat loss and poaching have driven dramatic declines in African elephants, but it is challenging to measure their numbers and monitor changes across the entire continent. A new study has analyzed ...

In the largest genomic mapping of Africa's elephants to date, an international team of researchers shows that elephant ...

A $7 million, comprehensive census of African elephants has found that the population decreased by nearly a third between 2007 and 2014. The Great Elephant Census was conducted over three years, and ...

DNA pulled from the dung of African forest elephants has given experts a more accurate -- and higher -- population estimate for the elusive animal, but the species remains critically endangered, a ...

An international research team analyzed 232 whole genomes from both savanna and forest elephants, collected across 17 African ...