Much of the eastern United States is currently undergoing a massive polar vortex, with another one expected to follow.

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo welcomed a rare new addition on Monday, a female elephant calf, marking the zoo’s first elephant birth in more than 25 years.

Drakes Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore is temporarily closed to accommodate elephant seals that have set up camp for the breeding season. The annual ritual has brought at least 30 males to ...

The Northern Elephant Seal breeding season is underway. One of the largest mainland-breeding colonies is here in the Bay Area. State park officials say so far, more than 1,000 elephant seals have ...

• During courtship, a male and a female elephant will rub their bodies on each other and even wrap trunks. The females tend to run away from the males and he will have to pursue her. This game of cat ...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Mabu saunters across a grassy field and raises his long, gray trunk to wrangle food from a hole carved inside a large boulder, captivating the attention of a girl propped up on ...

ST. LOUIS — Raja the elephant has been one of the biggest attractions — literally and figuratively — at the St. Louis Zoo for decades. Now, he’s moving away. The zoo announced Thursday that the male ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The Cincinnati Zoo got four more Asian elephants over the weekend ahead of next year's opening of Elephant Trek. The new elephants, SheRa, Kabir, Anak, and Sanjay are from the ...

A group opposed to the elephant-breeding program at Woodland Park Zoo has asked the federal government to investigate the death of Hansa, a 6-year-old Asian elephant who died in June. The elephant ...