The newest baby at the Fort Worth Zoo officially has a name. After opening up voting to the public, the female Asian elephant ...

Other baby elephant names in the vote included two other Texas flower-themed names: Yellow Rose and Black-eyed Susan. After ...

The Fort Worth Zoo has named their new baby Asian elephant, thanks to the public's help; she's named in honor of a former ...

Madagascar is home to some of the world’s most unique and remarkable species. However, one of its most awe-inspiring residents, the elephant bird, vanished from the planet roughly 1,000 years ago.

It was 10 feet tall and weighed more than 1,000 pounds. But that didn’t stop it from going extinct. An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on Earth—entered ...

Scientists surveying a wild bird colony in Argentina for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in October 2024. Credit: Marcela Uhart / UC Davis Viruses love to jump between animal species. In 2023 ...

A mutant strain of H5N1 avian flu has crossed over to infect elephant seals, killing almost all pups in last year's breeding season It's another sign of how dangerous the virus might prove in mammals, ...

The Fort Worth Zoo is inviting the public to help name the new member of the Asian elephant herd. The female calf was born to ...

The H5N1 strain of avian flu is now passing easily among South America's elephant seals and drastically cutting herd populations, a new report finds. "It is likely that more than half of the ...