Italy's culture minister called the incident "an absurd act of barbarity." The marble Elephant of the Obelisk of Santa Maria sopra Minerva by Bernini outside the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva.

One of Rome’s most photographed monuments is missing a piece—again. Italian police are investigating how the elephant sculpture designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini lost the tip of its left tusk for a ...

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 ...

Indiana plans to build a permanent bronze statue of Hall of Fame coach Bob Knight, the school announced Monday. The statue will be displayed alongside the 1976 national championship statues in the ...

Italian American organizations in Wilmington are advocating for the return of a Christopher Columbus statue. The statue was removed in 2020 amid a nationwide reckoning on race and history. Proponents ...

ZANESVILLE – All that glitters is gold – or maybe more the opposite could be true – as a 15-foot-tall statue of President Donald Trump completed in January 2025 slumbers in an Old Coopermill Road ...

At 15 feet tall, the statue of President Donald Trump, mounted on its 7,000-pound pedestal, is about the height of a two-story building — a giant effigy cast in bronze and finished with a thick layer ...

ZANESVILLE, Ohio — You may have seen his work outside the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium or inside the U.S. Capitol. Now, sculptor Alan Cottrill’s latest creation — 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 ...

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 ...

Young elephants have a lot to learn—what to eat, what to avoid, how to behave around others. When they grow up around their mother and aunts, their development into well-behaved adults may seem ...

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 ...