Designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the statue holds an 18-foot-tall Egyptian obelisk on its back. The four-inch fragment of its tusk was found nearby ...

One of Rome’s most photographed monuments is missing a piece—again. Italian police are investigating how the elephant sculpture designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini lost the tip of its left tusk for a ...

Elephants are not exactly commonplace in the European landscape, so when archaeologists uncovered an elephant foot bone among the rubble of an Iron Age dig in Spain, they knew it could be something ...

Kenya is mourning the death of Craig, one of its most famous elephants, known for his massive ground-sweeping tusks. He died of natural causes at the age of 54. “Early this morning, Amboseli National ...

Police are investigating how one of Rome’s most beloved monuments, the elephant sculpture designed by Baroque sculptor Gian ...

Historical accounts of the Punic Wars—and many other ancient wars—often paint a picture of soldiers riding in on imposing "war elephants." Yet, no skeletal remains of these war elephants had ever been ...

Mystery surrounds Happy, the famous Bronx Zoo elephant who has been the subject of fierce legal battles, with the 53-year-old elephant having not been seen in public for months. In recent weeks, ...