This story appears in the August 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The royalty of India—Hindu and Muslim—understood long ago that power was best wielded from the back of an elephant.

A new study by researchers in Berlin shows that elephants use their trunks in highly dexterous and creative ways to control and play with the flow of water from hoses.

The lives of the "Golden Girls" elephants in Colorado Springs has attracted the ire of In Defense of Animals, an activist ...

There’s a new artist in town — and she’s painting without a brush. Only nine months old, elephant calf Meru is officially Tucson’s newest Van Gogh, creating abstract paintings with her ...