There are about 1,000 tiny hairs on an elephant’s rugged trunk, all designed to help the animal feel, a new study found. By Alexa Robles-Gil Every elephant has about 1,000 whiskers on its trunk. They ...

The Alphabet-owned company is using Google’s Genie world-building AI model to generate a variety of simulated ‘edge cases.’ The Alphabet-owned company is using Google’s Genie world-building AI model ...

A female Asian elephant calf has been born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Washington, DC, the first in almost a quarter of a century. The baby, whose ...

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 ...

In a major move to prevent human-elephant conflict along forest fringes, the Kerala Forest Department has partnered with Tata Motors for a new initiative. The project will implement an AI-enabled real ...

Over the years, there have been reports of human and elephant conflict, with estimates of the number of people killed by elephants reaching as high as 500. Researchers have linked these clashes to ...

Nearly two dozen people were killed and 15 were injured by a large wild bull elephant that went on a 10-day rampage through several towns in eastern India, terrorizing locals who reportedly climbed ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Each winter, thousands of massive northern ...

Indian wildlife officers are hunting a rampaging wild elephant blamed for killing at least 20 people and injuring 15 others in the forests of Jharkhand, villagers and officials said Tuesday. The ...

Over the past two weeks, several villages in the Indian state of Jharkhand have been terrorized by an elephant. The creature appears at night, tearing through vulnerable communities. So far, he’s ...

In the sprawling plains of Africa and the dense forests of Asia, the majestic elephant, known for its intelligence and grandeur, undergoes a remarkable phenomenon known as musth. Musth, a word derived ...

Recall the folk tale of the blind men and the elephant—a trio of blind men come across an elephant and try to describe it to each other with their own limited understandings of the creature. It’s the ...