In the largest genomic mapping of Africa's elephants to date, an international team of researchers shows that elephant history is defined by the ability to move across large distances and exchange ...

Habitat fragmentation is blamed for the lack of genetic diversity in elephant populations. Elephants that historically intermingled have more diverse DNA. Conservationists have sounded the alarm for ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. In tissue samples drawn from elephant skin ...

People have had a devastating impact on African elephant and rhino numbers, but in parts of Africa we’re helping these amazing animals to recover People have had a devastating impact on African ...

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic, as ...

1. Does recent research resolve once and for all whether there are two separate species of African elephant? 2. What are the conservation implications if there are two species? We would have to ...

African elephants are the largest land animals on earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless, Asian ...

Elephants in Rwanda. In the largest genomic study of African elephants to date, an international team of researchers analysed 232 whole genomes from both savanna and forest elephants, collected across ...

In the largest genomic mapping of Africa’s elephants, an international team of researchers shows that elephant history is defined by the ability to move across large distances and exchange genes ...