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The catastrophic molt is a painful and arduous process, keeping elephant seals vulnerable for weeks at a time.

Thailand has started using a birth control vaccine on elephants in the wild to try and curb a growing problem. Human and animal populations are encroaching on each other as farms spread into forests ...

Archaeologists say a 2,200-year-old specimen is the first direct evidence of how the Carthaginian war machine used the giant mammals in the Punic Wars. By Franz Lidz A 2,200-year-old bone unearthed ...

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 ...

An elephant’s trunk looks rugged, but it is also one of the most sensitive touch organs in the animal kingdom. New research reveals that this sensitivity is partly powered by whiskers whose material ...

WASHINGTON D.C. (WTOC) - The Smithsonian National Zoo is celebrating the birth of an endangered Asian elephant for the first time in about 25 years, according to the zoo. The female calf was born ...

A female Asian elephant calf was born Feb. 2 to mother Nhi Linh and father Spike at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. NOTE: B-roll and photos of the calf will be ...

Authorities are now considering what to do with the elephant Getty A tourist was killed by a wild bull elephant in Thailand's Khao Yai National Park on Monday, Feb. 2, according to news reports ...

Acupuncture is no longer confined to human clinics. In recent years, it has become part of veterinary care for elephants living in zoos and sanctuaries. As elephants age under managed conditions, long ...

In a famous Indian parable, five blind men are brought to an elephant. Each feels a different part of the animal, and they come to radically different views of what an elephant is. It depended on ...

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