This story appears in the September 2011 issue of National ... the first night." "And she's healed psychologically," Angela adds. "She was one extremely traumatized little elephant when she ...

This story appears in the August 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The royalty of India—Hindu and Muslim—understood long ago that power was best wielded from the back of an elephant.

An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on Earth—entered the National Geographic Society's collection in 1967. The elephant bird belongs to a ...