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 ...

India’s wild elephants don’t live within neat park boundaries. They move across forests, grasslands, river valleys, and human landscapes following migration routes that are centuries old. To protect ...

A worker was taken to the hospital after falling from a construction crane and into the river in Newport, Kentucky.The call came around 9 a.m. to the River Metals Recycling facility in ...

Ed Crane lived a big life. Some will see the previous statement as an obvious one, and one made evident by the fact that Ed, along with Charles Koch, founded the Cato Institute, the world’s foremost ...

An elephant’s trunk is a marvelous thing, flexible enough to bend and stretch as it forages for food, but also stiff enough to grasp and maneuver even delicate objects like peanuts or a tortilla chip.

The elephants are hitting the road again. An exhibit featuring 100 life-sized Indian elephant sculptures, titled “The Great Elephant Migration,” will leave the city’s Meatpacking District on Sunday, ...

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Jeffery Crane, 47, stole from companies in other parts of Florida and Georgia, according to investigators. Jeffery Crane, 47, is facing several felony charges in connection with the theft of $2.4 ...

A wild bull elephant has killed a third tourist at a national park in Thailand this week, according to multiple news outlets. Jirathachai, who is in his 60s, encountered Phlai Oiwan, a bull elephant ...

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 ...

Mondy had been at Blair Drummond Safari Park since 1998 The only African elephant in Scotland has died at her home at Blair Drummond Safari Park, aged 54. The park said Mondula, known as Mondy, was ...

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