There are about 1,000 tiny hairs on an elephant’s rugged trunk, all designed to help the animal feel, a new study found.

It's a girl! For the first time in nearly 25 years, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute is ...

Wildlife biologist and TV host Forrest Galante got the chance to be showered with plenty of elephant kisses when he visited ...

DNA testing proves that Borneo pygmy elephants are an indigenous and distinct subspecies, with different characteristics from their Asian elephant cousins on mainland Asia and Sumatra. Petaling Jaya, ...

In A Nutshell Elephant whiskers have “physical intelligence”: Three built-in gradients (geometry, porosity, and stiffness) work together to amplify touch signals and encode contact location without ...