Russell's viper's venom, on the other hand, is hemotoxic, which destroys blood cells, interferes with clotting, and can lead to extensive internal bleeding and organ failure. Though both venoms ...

Authorities have found a dead Sumatran elephant in a palm oil plantation near Mount Leuser National Park (TNGL) in Bukitmas village, Besitang district, Langkat regency, North Sumatra. The male ...

An elephant in zoo on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali was found dead on Tuesday after being swept away. Molly, a 45-year-old female Sumatran elephant was one of two being guided by a mahout ...

When an earthquake strikes, humans duck and cover. But elephants get in formation. African elephants at the San Diego Zoo instinctively formed a protective circle around its youngest family ...

The Sumatran city of Palembang was home to the Srivijaya Empire from the seventh to 11th centuries, and an important springboard for the reach of Buddhism into Indonesia by Chinese monks.

Sumatran tigers are a critically endangered subspecies of tiger and fewer than 400 are believed to remain in the wild. See All Key Ideas ROKAN HULU/PADANG/CENTRAL ACEH, Indonesia — In separate ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park were caught on camera forming a protective circle when a 5.2 magnitude earthquake shook Southern California Monday morning.

In the piece, a trio of experts argue that advances in biotechnology will soon allow us to create “spare” human bodies that could be used for research, or to provide organs for donation.

Elephants moving at speed show an even stronger avoidance of difficult, more energetically-costly terrain. 74% of individuals avoided costly areas when moving slowly, which increased to 87% when ...

Being an elephant is no easy task. These giant herbivores have to devour huge quantities of low-nutrient vegetation to meet their dietary needs, but their imposing size makes movement difficult ...