For millions of years, over a dozen species of proboscideans, the group that includes mammoths, mastodons and elephants, roamed landscapes as varied as Arctic tundra and African savannas. Then, around ...
Scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) study Asian elephants, which are endangered. There are about 30,000 to 50,000 Asian elephants left in the wild—that’s compared to ...