Years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as "the hobbit" thanks to ...

WWF-Malaysia's field researcher and elephant tracker Englebert Dausip talks about his experience of tracking pygmy elephants in the forests of Borneo. Englebert "Bert" Dausip, a WWF-Malaysia field ...

Archaeologists have found compelling evidence that the early humans who inhabited the Indonesian island of Flores were wiped ...

IN THE BORNEO FOREST, Malaysia -- Crouched in the vine-tangled forest of Borneo, where the brightest part of the day seems like dusk, Elis Tambing finally got the elusive animal in his laser sight and ...

There’s an elephant less than six metres in front of me and yet I can’t make out any part of her in the dense Borneo jungle. The jungle is congested with vines and leaves that make seeing an arduous ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — More than a dozen pygmy elephants found dead and possibly poisoned in Malaysian forests were in reserves slated to be converted into plantations, the wildlife group WWF ...

Kuala Lumpur — A pygmy elephant gored its handler to death at a wildlife park in Malaysia's eastern Sabah state in a Christmas Day tragedy, conservation officials said Thursday. Joe Fred Lansou, 49, ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia Satellite tracking of pygmy elephants has found that the endangered animals are under threat because of logging and commercial plantations encroaching on their habitat, ...

Ten endangered Borneo pygmy elephants have been found dead in a Malaysian forest under mysterious circumstances, and wildlife officials said Tuesday that they probably were poisoned. Carcasses of the ...

Plantation workers discovered a 2-year-old female elephant stuck in a moat Friday, two weeks after a 6-month-old female was found wandering in another plantation in Malaysia's eastern Sabah state, ...