Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: An Asian elephant dries off with some sand in his enclosure at the zoo in Karlsruhe July 7, 2011. REUTERS/Alex ...

If you've ever watched an elephant perform a delicate task with its trunk, the secret might lie in something easy to miss: whiskers. New research in Science finds that the hundreds of fine hairs ...

A secret elephant abduction and a secret death: The on-going elephantine travesty that's full of bad news A few months ago I wrote an essay with Catherine Doyle and Keith Lindsay called "The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new exhibit centered around elephants is opening at the EcoTarium in Worcester this Saturday. The exhibit at the science museum ...

The list of feats Andrew Schulz has witnessed an elephant perform with its trunk is as long as, well, an elephant’s trunk. These powerful proboscises are strong enough to push over 900 pound trees and ...

The whiskers on the trunks of elephants have unique properties that grant them a highly evolved sense of touch – Copyright AFP John MACDOUGALL An elephant’s trunk ...

The four-part event series will take viewers around the world, from the Savannas of Africa to the urban landscapes of Asia, to meet different families of elephants and learn their unique stories. Like ...

A new study from an interdisciplinary German research collaboration, led by the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), reveals the secret to the ...

The exhibit will run until Labor Day at the EcoTarium. The exhibit hall was named in honor of Worcester industrialist and animal lover Robert Stoddard. Interactive activities for all ages are part of ...

Learn about the elusive ghost elephants living in the Angolan Highlands, and find out why researchers are so intrigued by their genomes. Ghost elephants have been roaming across a lush wetland in ...