And that has “helped massively” to protect them, says Rachel Dwyer, a British scholar researching the cultural history of Indian elephants. “India’s elephants have survived in larger ...

Fast forward to 2019, while I was studying for my Ph.D. on the fossil history of elephants, I got exciting news from my colleague Advait Jukar that he would be joining an international scientific ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The intricate web of cracks and crevices that gives African elephants their distinctive look is, in fact, an essential ...