African forest elephants, with their extraordinary adaptations, social structures, and crucial role in maintaining the rainforest ecosystem, are a remarkable example of the magnificence of nature.

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 ...

Habitat loss and poaching have driven dramatic declines in African elephants, but it is challenging to measure their numbers ...

There are two forms of African elephant, with different distributions and very marked ... We hypothesise that ‘intermediate’-looking animals are a result of hybridisation, or the adaptation of some ...

It was three times longer than an African elephant. Native to Late Cretaceous North Africa, Spinosaurus exhibited unique ...