Field rangers observed fewer tusked female elephants. Decades of ivory hunting in Gorongosa National Park favored tuskless survivors. This trait is passed to offspring, dramatically increasing the ...

Many of us would probably like to forget sitting through math classes in school. But let’s briefly travel back, just for a moment, to sixth grade, when you were likely introduced to ratios. A ratio ...

There is an old parable about several blind men encountering an elephant for the first time. One touches the trunk and insists the elephant is like a snake. Another grabs a leg and argues it is like a ...

The discovery of the earliest direct evidence of systematic proboscidean butchery at Olduvai Gorge demonstrates that by 1.8 Ma early hominins had strategically integrated megafaunal exploitation into ...

Sonoma Community Center will welcome two life-size elephant sculptures from the international Great Elephant Migration Project, a touring public art installation that tells the story of human-wildlife ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you start your week with a baby elephant, does anything else that happens that week really matter? Maybe not for hundreds of ...

Feces, dung, poop: words that never fail to make a 12-year-old boy laugh. But they have no place in highly advanced scientific processes, right? Well, that’s where you’d be wrong. Researchers ...

At just five years old, Ellie the Elephant has already cemented her status as a New York icon — and on June 1, the beloved New York Liberty mascot celebrated her birthday in unforgettable fashion.

Have you ever wondered what happens to that sticky note you scribbled on once and threw away? According to the American Forest & Paper Association, the amount of paper and paperboard generated in 2023 ...