Organized by the school’s STEM Outreach Club, the second annual Extravaganza for students in kindergarten through eighth grade was designed to be bigger and better than last year’s, club officers ...

Young elephants have a lot to learn—what to eat, what to avoid, how to behave around others. When they grow up around their mother and aunts, their development into well-behaved adults may seem ...

The whiskers on an elephant’s trunk are key to its “amazing” sense of touch, reveals new research. The 1,000 hairs that cover the trunk have unusual properties that highlight where contact happens ...

Watching an elephant forage for roots to eat reveals just how strong yet sensitive its trunk is. An elephant’s more than 40,000 trunk muscles can upend trees and follow it up with gently collecting ...

The elephant’s trunk stands as one of nature’s most remarkable evolutionary achievements. This extraordinary appendage contains approximately 150,000 individual muscle fascicles—muscle units that work ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Elephant Valley, a 13-acre-plus savanna at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, will bring guests so close to elephants ...

Authorities are now considering what to do with the elephant Getty A tourist was killed by a wild bull elephant in Thailand's Khao Yai National Park on Monday, Feb. 2, according to news reports ...

African elephants (Loxodonta Africana) live in the savannas, rainforests, woodlands, and scrub forests of central and southern Africa. In these wide-open landscapes, long-distance communication is a ...

A wild bull elephant killed a tourist in central Thailand's Khao Yai National Park on Monday, a park official said, the third fatality linked to the same animal. The 65-year-old Thai tourist from ...

The elephant has killed people in about 12 separate attacks in India since Jan. 1 MANJUNATH KIRAN/AFP via Getty At least 17 people have been killed by an elephant in India in a series of attacks that ...

Gone are the days of spending hours searching for the answer to a question, having to leave the house to meet someone new or even getting up to change the temperature in your home. But technologically ...