In 1916, a circus arrived in East Tennessee with Mary the elephant at the front of its attractions. Crowds gathered to watch her move through town, unaware of how quickly things would take a violent ...

Long before firearms or modern justice systems, several Asian and Middle Eastern empires used trained elephants as instruments of execution. These massive animals were taught not only to crush ...

Two elderly female tourists in Zambia were killed by an elephant Thursday while on a walking safari in a national park, police said, a year after two American women were killed in separate elephant ...