Elephants are known for being very intelligent, but you may not know that they are fast, too. And it's a good thing that they are after watching this video that @National Geographic shared at the end ...

A baby "desert elephant" has been filmed learning how to use mud as "sunscreen" following rare rainfall in the harsh climate of its typically arid home. The clip shows a group of desert elephants in ...

A new, tiny species of elephant shrew, also called a round-eared sengi, has been discovered in the Namib Desert in Africa, scientists say. The newbie, now called Macroscelides micus, is the smallest ...

Fresh dung. Tracks in the sand of the Namib desert. The black rhinoceros can't be far away. Wildlife rangers Stefanus Ganuseb, 42, and Fritz Hoeb, 45, are patrolling on foot, equipped with binoculars ...

Did you know that one of James Cameron’s informal titles is “National Geographic Explorer-at-Large”? It’s true – he’s an executive producer of Secrets of the Elephants (airing on Nat Geo, streaming on ...

Why am I always disappointed by the elephant shrew? In Michael Chritons Jurassic Park (book not movie) John Hammond ran around proving his ability to manipulate genetic material by showing investors a ...