Stock image of an African Elephant eating green grass. Elephants' diets "may depend on who they are or where they are in their life", according to a new study.

Elephants promote the growth of higher-carbon plants by eating leaves from lower-density-carbon trees, researchers find.

Elephants eat plants. That's common knowledge to biologists and animal-loving schoolchildren alike. Yet figuring out exactly what kind of plants the iconic herbivores eat is more complicated.

Elephants may vary what they eat for dinner every night – and have favourite foods – just like humans, new research suggests. It is well known that the animals eat leaves, ...

Elephants are herbivores and eat things like bananas and fruits, tree bark, leaves, and bamboo. Their enormous size also comes with an enormous appetite.

Rescue efforts are being planned to save a lonely elephant that has been stranded on an island for almost two years. The five-year-old male named Sun wandered onto the eyot for fresh food when a ...

When plants grow, they suck in carbon dioxide and store it in their leaves and roots, and the soil they inhabit. When fires, animals, or deforestation kills plants, that carbon is usually released.

An elephant eating leaves isn’t engineering—but as soon as it rips down a tree, it is. Since the idea entered the scientific mainstream, ecologists have debated what counts as an engineer, ...