If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

Misha lived her whole life in zoos, but this elephant’s teeth are now helping scientists reconstruct wildlife migrations. University of Utah geologists show how strontium isotopes found in teeth or ...

In 2008, diamond miners in Namibia's desert uncovered the Bom Jesus, a Portuguese ship lost in 1533 enroute to India. The ...

PRELIMINARY research findings in the Nyerere National Park and the Selous Game Reserve show the existence of various minerals ...

A wild elephant, aged 50, was found dead in Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary due to starvation linked to a leg injury, raising ...

Treasures believed to be worth around £10million were found within, including thousands of rare and valuable gold coins, as well as nearly 2,000 copper ingots.

The forest elephant was one of the largest known ... “It was probably hunted by prehistoric humans. The tusk was left on the rock, which was lower back then. Either the hunter forgot it there ...

A 500-year-old Portuguese shipwreck found in Namibia’s desert holds a treasure trove of gold, copper, and history from the ...

It's then thought to have collided with a rock and capsized ... as well as nearly 2,000 copper ingots. More than 100 elephant ivory tusks were also discovered among the wreckage.

The elephant’s tusks were removed ... when a wild elephant got trapped between rocks in the Mudigere–Sakaleshpur forest region and died. Residents of Hebbe range have raised concerns over ...