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A wrinkled Northern elephant seal named Violet slid out of a crate and onto San Pedro’s Cabrillo Beach on a muggy morning in late August.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

There’s an elephant sanctuary and a temple that bills itself as the world’s largest all-wood structure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Four people have been arrested in Kenya as part of an investigation into a spate of mysterious elephant deaths over the past two months, officials have said.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

Deep in Malaysia's Borneo jungle, wild shouts fill the air as a Bornean elephant is darted and her angry herd rallies to protect her.

From Barron's

And then she started talking about Marlene again, the young elephant she had almost adopted by now.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

In the latest outbreak in the Munyamadzi Game Management Area, in Muchinga province, Zambia's Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit said 46 hippos, eight elephants, five buffaloes and one crocodile had died since July.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

"If you start looking at long-lived species like elephants, whales and bats, you start finding ways that nature has actually already resolved a lot of these problems in human health," Vazquez added.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

For millions of years, Pacific mastodons — huge, hairy relatives of modern elephants — roamed a vast and lush range that included California, Oregon, the northern Rocky Mountains and parts of Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

"The elephants were unmonitored, and many were lost to conflict. Now, with the Seratu Aatai unit, they are protected, and the community is actively involved too," Firah told AFP.

From Barron's

Because making friends was supposed to be that easy, apparently—finding someone else who liked elephants.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken