The shipments were rushed to the National Zoo overnight, packed in dry ice for the 400-mile trip. A few pounds in weight, the containers went immediately into freezers until the contents could be ...

A new study from an interdisciplinary German research collaboration, led by the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, reveals the secret to the gentle ...

A team of researchers working at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin, has found that the nerve bundle in an elephant's trunk is one of the largest known structures of its ...

Some researchers say that "bringing back" woolly mammoths could help protect frozen tundras by slowing the melting of permafrost. Bettmann / Contributor via Getty Images Scientists from a company ...

It should have been a day like any other in Mae Wang, Thailand. But at one elephant camp in this small rural district just outside the tourism hub of Chiang Mai, the elephant handlers, or mahouts, ...

During the summer of 2006, this pachydermic updating of the Androcles and the Lion fable once again began to work its way from inbox to inbox. Sometimes it was presented as reproduced above, an ...

A wild bull elephant killed a tourist in central Thailand's Khao Yai National Park on Monday, a park official said, the third fatality linked to the same animal. The 65-year-old Thai tourist from ...

If you ever get an opportunity to go to Thailand, chances are you'll come home with a souvenir with the country's national animal on it…the Asian elephant. Elephants are more than a point of pride in ...