Elephants cruise on four-wheel drive and bendy knees using a gait different from most quadrupeds, a new study shows. Whereas most four-legged animals use their front legs to stop and their back legs ...

THAILAND - Sixteen years ago, a young Asian elephant arrived at the world’s first elephant hospital with a major injury to her front leg. Today, she’s the second elephant to ever receive a prosthesis, ...

Throughout history, elephants have been thought of as 'different'. Shakespeare, and even Aristotle, described them as walking on inflexible column-like legs. And this myth persists even today. Which ...

Prosthetic limbs aren't just for people. They can be for elephants, too. Meet Mosha the elephant. She has been given a second shot at mobility with the help of a prosthetic leg. The three-legged ...

Wildlife SOS recently debuted their pachyderm paramedics aboard the Elephant Ambulance to save an overworked elephant.