The Smithsonian’s National Zoo announced Friday that its less than 2-week-old female Asian elephant has been named Linh Mai, Vietnamese for spirit blossom. The 308-pound calf was the first elephant ...

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 ...

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 ...

After Obama says they're real, Trump orders release of government files on UFOs Eric Dane, ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and ‘Euphoria’ star, dead at 53 Grandson of the inventor of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups ...

A decades-long quest reveals the remarkable truth about how these giant creatures have remained so elusive. The ghost elephants that live in the highlands of Angola behave like almost no others on ...

Feb 13 (Reuters) - An elephant's trunk is essential for most aspects of the animal's life, from interacting with its environment and with other elephants to eating and drinking. And the roughly 1,000 ...

An elephant has about 1,000 whiskers on its trunk. Basile Morin via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-4.0 Elephants are famous for their dexterous trunks, which the animals use to eat, drink, trumpet and ...

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Concrete evidence of fabled crossing of the Alps by African general discovered in Spain Nick Squires is The Telegraph’s Rome correspondent, covering Italy, the Vatican, Greece and the Balkans. He has ...

The historic move comes just three months after an explosive investigation by PETA Asia into Bali’s top elephant parks uncovered deeply unsettling claims of animal abuse. The claims were vigorously ...