Present-day elephants are the biggest land animals. The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana) weighs over 10 tons and is up to 13 feet tall. Their Asian relatives, Elephas maximus, rank next on ...

No passengers were injured, but wildlife veterinary officers are treating a female elephant and an injured calf in the city of Giritale, Sri Lanka’s state-owned Daily News reported Thursday.

When a bull elephant and hippo meet in a watering hole, it’s not always a peaceful coexistence. In the accompanying footage, captured by Scott Hyman in Botswana, South Africa, the much larger ...

Hassan Abou Hayleh, 39, was found guilty in November of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman in Dorset. His sentencing at Bournemouth Crown Court was adjourned on Monday after his defence barrister ...

As reported, Portland Rocks Festival will take place from Friday ... featuring acts such as Richie T and the Nostalgia Crew, Dorset Reggae Club and Jason Hughes. Mr and Mrs Carter, of South ...

The event will feature a range of organisations, including the health visiting team and charities such as Baby Connections, Evolve Music’s ‘Dads Rock’, Purple Elephant, and The Good Heart.

The two massive rock falls that plummeted onto Hive Beach were suspected to have fallen one morning last week. Lyme Bay’s National Coastwatch Institution discovered the fall when checking the beach.

How average house prices and rents are changing in Dorset. You have selected Dorset but you can choose a different local authority in Great Britain below. Local housing data are based on a smaller ...

Security – Bag Policy: Large bags including rucksacks are not allowed. There are no facilities to leave large bags or luggage. If you really have to bring a bag – and it’s preferable you don’t, please ...

Fine purveyors of Classic Rock Love Songs to get you in the romantic mood: Freddie Mercury, Jon Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Stevie Nicks. Picture: Goddard Archive/Alamy Stock Photo/Chris Walter ...

Roughly occupying an area that equates with modern Dorset, together with significant parts of southern Wiltshire and south eastern Somerset, the pottery, coinage, settlements and burial practices of ...

“Rock” is so loose a label as to be pretty much meaningless these days. But the best rock albums, even if they aren’t that musically similar, share some things in common: boundary-breaking ...