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 ...

In "Caged Fury," a group of adventurers embarks on a daring expedition in the African jungle to capture ... showcasing their unique adaptations and instincts. As the explorers devise clever ...

There are two forms of African elephant, with different distributions and very marked ... We hypothesise that ‘intermediate’-looking animals are a result of hybridisation, or the adaptation of some ...

This means that they have special features that help them to survive. An African elephant, for example, lives in a hot habitat and has very large ears that it flaps to keep cool. A polar bear ...