African elephants are massive creatures, growing anywhere from 7 to 12 feet tall and weighing from 6,000 to 12,000 pounds. Even the fiercest lion would think twice before taking on an animal that size ...

In a remarkable display of interspecies compassion, an elephant defends an injured lion from a pair of hyenas in South Africa's Kruger National Park. Photographer Morne du Plessis captured this ...

A lion killed a 14-year-old girl outside Kenya's capital Nairobi while an elephant killed a 54-year-old man in the central part of the country, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said this weekend. The ...

Lions and rhinos are both members of the Big Five in Africa. The name has nothing to do with size, although these are big animals. These five African animals (lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo, and ...