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The Supreme Court of India remarked on Monday that the use of elephants in festivals is part of the country’s culture. A Bench of Justices B.V. Nagarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma was hearing a ...

In May 1967, a group of six Williams College students read about Columbus the elephant, who was buried in Lenox, and enlisted ...

Scientists have made a leap in genetic engineering by pushing elephant cells into an embryonic-like state. This marks a major ...

The Elephant Sanctuary, in Hohenwald, celebrated its 30 th anniversary on March 3, marking three decades of adopting former circus and show elephants and allowing them to retire in peaceful ...

A new study reveals how African elephants plan their elaborate journeys: they strategically choose the least energy-consuming routes to reach food sources. These findings, researchers say ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

Revealing the disturbing, inhumane conditions for elephants being held in captivity in zoos, filmmaker Fern Levitt puts a spotlight on Lucy, a 49-year-old elephant being held at the Edmonton Valley ...

Buzz pollination—a process in which bees extract pollen by vibrating flowers—occurs in more than 20,000 plant species. Among ...

Being an elephant is no easy task. These giant herbivores have to devour huge quantities of low-nutrient vegetation to meet their dietary needs, but their imposing size makes movement difficult ...

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