The phrase "elephant in the room" wasn't always about awkward topics. Here's how the idiom evolved over the past two ...

"It seemed as if Noah's ark were emptying itself over on Long Island," The New York Times reported in 1884.

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Elephants investigate and revisit the remains of their dead for years — a biologist explains the real science behind this eerie, grief-like behavior.

Behind Kruger National Park’s stark elephant mortality figures lies a complex reality of thriving populations, natural life ...

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Inspired by the cracked, water-trapping skin of elephants, Penn researchers have developed a low-cost cement tile that cools ...

When a pregnant elephant goes into labor, other females gather around her in ways that suggest something far beyond instinct.

An unlikely group of outsiders grasp for acceptance on and off-screen in the moving, sometimes surreal biopic The Elephant Man.

Without so much as a wave of his flipper, Neil the boisterous young elephant seal departed Tasmania this week, leaving behind a legion of fans – and questions about what happens when he gets even ...

Every day before many of Caldwell Zoo's largest animals receive their meals, zookeepers head into nearby wooded areas to ...