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 ...

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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 makers of a new CBeebies cartoon about a young wizard say they made a "deliberate choice" to set the comedy in Manchester. Rafi the Wishing Wizard recently debuted with its story about a ...

The list of feats Andrew Schulz has witnessed an elephant perform with its trunk is as long as, well, an elephant’s trunk. These powerful proboscises are strong enough to push over 900 pound trees and ...

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Los Angeles Zoo has announced that its last two Asian elephants, Billy and Tina, will be moved to a larger, more naturalistic sanctuary at the Tulsa Zoo in Oklahoma, marking the ...

This will be Mlilo's third calf, and her last baby was born in 2023, according to the zoo's announcement. The elephant's father is Tendaji, a 22-year-old bull. African elephants have a 22-month ...

Andy jets off to Antarctica to record the unusual sounds of an emperor penguin.

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 ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

A decades-long quest reveals the remarkable truth about how these giant creatures have remained so elusive. The ghost elephants that live in the highlands of Angola behave like almost no others on ...

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