In India, the process of training an elephant has changed little since ancient times. They captured elephants in the wild because they are difficult to breed and maintain for years in captivity. Male ...

The mystery of an ancient battle between two warring troops of elephants has been solved, thanks to a modern genetic analysis of the lumbering beasts. Researchers have now found that Eritrean ...

The bone of a "sizeable" elephant that may have taken part in combat thousands of years ago has been uncovered in southern Spain. Archaeologists found the carpal bone of an "elephant of large ...

Elephants were the tanks of the ancient battlefield. An elephant charging into a group of soldiers or horses could decimate a formation. That’s assuming the sheer psychological impact of watching a ...

Greg Jenner is joined in ancient North Africa by classicist Professor Josephine Quinn and comedian Darren Harriott to learn ...

Imagine, for a moment, you are a Roman soldier at war. In the midst of battle, you are confronted with an enormous and loudly trumpeting creature you’ve never seen before. It appears to have sharp ...

All of us know and love Jumbo, but there are quite a few other elephants that have made their mark on history. For example, Pope Leo X had a white pet elephant, Hanno, a gift from King Manuel I of ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...