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 ...

LUMEZI, Zambia—Three-year-old Dickson Ngwira was deep into his afternoon nap when half a dozen elephants, using trunks as trowels, gouged a five-foot-wide hole in the brick wall near his bed. His ...

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. Zambian rivers have some of the highest concentrations of crocodiles in Africa (file photo) [Getty Images] A 52-year-old fisherman ...

Historical accounts of the Punic Wars—and many other ancient wars—often paint a picture of soldiers riding in on imposing "war elephants." Yet, no skeletal remains of these war elephants had ever been ...

One person died following a six-vehicle crash in La Jolla Thursday evening, San Diego police said. Several people called 911 just before 8:30 p.m. to report the crash on Torrey Pines and Hidden Valley ...

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 ...

Having called the bitcoin top in 2024 and seen the boom/bubble play out, I’ve been predicting the subsequent crash for a very long time. I bailed on BTC at $100,000, leaving the expected extra $20,000 ...

OPERATES AT HIGHWAY SPEEDS AND ALSO INCLUDES PEDESTRIAN DETECTION. ALL RIGHT TO BREAKING NEWS NOW AS WE JUST GOT AN UPDATE ABOUT A CRASH WE’VE BEEN FOLLOWING, IT’S ON I-4 AND THIS WAS INVOLVING A ...

Washington, D.C., has something to trumpet about overnight after welcoming a very small and very special new resident. A baby Asian elephant was born in the early hours Monday at the Smithsonian’s ...

BREEZES TO USHER IN THE NEXT STORM. BRIAN HAS A LOOK AT THE COMMUTE. NOT GOOD. RIGHT NOW WE HAVE BREAKING NEWS. THIS IS IN FOLSOM. THIS IS FOLSOM BOULEVARD, AND THIS IS RIGHT FROM THE CAMERA AT ...

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 ...