The Smithsonian’s National Zoo announced Friday that its less than 2-week-old female Asian elephant has been named Linh Mai, Vietnamese for spirit blossom. The 308-pound calf was the first elephant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: An Asian elephant dries off with some sand in his enclosure at the zoo in Karlsruhe July 7, 2011. REUTERS/Alex ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The whiskers on the trunks of elephants have unique properties that grant them a highly evolved sense of touch (John MACDOUGALL) ...

The Asian elephant calf that was born to female Asian elephant Nhi Linh on Feb. 2, 2026 at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. (Courtesy Roshan Patel, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology ...

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 ...

An elephant has about 1,000 whiskers on its trunk. Basile Morin via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-4.0 Elephants are famous for their dexterous trunks, which the animals use to eat, drink, trumpet and ...

Feb 13 (Reuters) - An elephant's trunk is essential for most aspects of the animal's life, from interacting with its environment and with other elephants to eating and drinking. And the roughly 1,000 ...

Lovingly painted dishware, bicycles and garden tools, a heavy cellarette that looks to be rescued from a 18th-century pirate ship – it’s all ready and waiting to be adopted into your home at Oakland’s ...

An elephant's trunk can surpass a human's height and lift trees -- a marvel of strength that's conversely so gentle it can grasp a tortilla chip without breaking it. So how do the thick-skinned ...

There’s nothing cuter than a baby, especially the four-legged kind. The latest birth that has us excited is the newest addition to the Smithsonian Zoo: a baby elephant. The Smithsonian’s National Zoo ...

Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered an elephant bone from 2,200 years ago, and they believe it belonged to an animal that served as a “war machine” in an army sent to invade the Roman Republic.

A herd of elephant pasture on a plain of the Maasai Mara National park in western Kenyan on August 15, 2008. The park is one of the most popular parks in the African continent. ROBERTO SCHMIDT Roberto ...