The best white elephant gift ideas are often inexpensive and come in varying degrees of funny or useful, depending on the crowd. For an office party, you may want to play it safe with a practical ...

There’s a Sherlock Holmes tale in here somewhere: A clever observer could check wrinkles and whiskers on an elephant trunk to catch a left-trunker pachyderm perp masquerading as a righty ...

30, 2024 — Geneticists have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs -- the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art -- by analyzing ... Oceanographers Record the ...

They’re practically flooding our social media feeds and TV screens. Of course, we’re talking about the elephant and donkey, with the former representing the Republican Party and the latter as ...

The animals could see both racks from their enclosure, but couldn't reach them with their trunks. Nevertheless, they regularly tried to do so, in order to examine the stimuli presented more closely.

This undated photo provided by the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo shows elephants Kimba, front, and Lucky, back, at the Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colo. (Cheyenne Mountain Zoo via AP) DENVER (AP ...

November 1, 2024 • For years, we've been asking, "Which came first: the chicken or the egg?" Maybe what we should have been asking is, "Which came first: the frog or the tadpole?" A new paper in ...

Even Marine Animals in Untouched Habitats Are at Risk from Human Impacts Sep. 18, 2024 — Climate change and a range of other human impacts are putting marine animals at risk of extinction ...

An animal rights group is arguing five elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo should be considered people in the eyes of the law. NBC News's Gadi Schwartz breaks down the controversial case and ...

Five elephants in a Colorado zoo could someday sue for their freedom, if the state's Supreme Court sides with an animal rights group and declares them "persons" under the law. But first ...

Your support makes all the difference. A court in America is being asked to decide if elephants are considered to be the same as people in a ruling on the animals’ freedom. Missy, Kimba ...