In England, Jumbo lived alone in a tiny elephant stable and spent his days rides to children — sometimes as many as a dozen at a time. In declining health and suffering from troubling night ...

The creature, resembling a small elephant with a trunk, was recovered from the Batagaika crater, a huge depression more than 80 metres (260 feet) deep which is widening as a result of climate change.

The animal is small enough to fit in ... record of the "lost species" of elephant shrew was in the 1970s, despite local sightings. The creature was found alive and well in Djibouti, a country ...