There’s a Sherlock Holmes tale in here somewhere: A clever observer could check wrinkles and whiskers on an elephant trunk to catch a left-trunker pachyderm perp masquerading as a righty ...

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BANGKOK — A well-known elephant sanctuary in Thailand appealed for help on Friday after torrential flash floods forced the ...

BANGKOK — A well-known elephant sanctuary in Thailand appealed for help on Friday after torrential flash floods forced the evacuation of about 100 elephants. Videos and pictures released by ...

Warner’s handling of Cartoon Network and its animated legacy in recent months is something that could diplomatically be described as “not ideal,” between the closure of the iconic Cartoon ...

A multidisciplinary team of scientists has conducted a study of Asian and African elephant wrinkles to learn more about their purpose. In their study, published in the journal Royal Society Open ...

Rebecca and Hannah’s average-size, twenty-five-hundred-square-foot apartment overlooking Central Park is perfect for accommodating big groups.

Are you left-handed or right-handed? Well, experts have found a way to work out if elephants are left or right 'trunked' by looking at the wrinkles in their skin. Elephants use their big trunks to ...

But the two ton, 15-year-old elephant was no match for the flooding that inundated Chiang Mai, Thailand’s second-largest city, last week. By the time a team of rescuers saw her, she had been ...

Elephant Nature Park in Thailand is scrambling to evacuate many of its 126 elephants amid severe flooding in the wake of Typhoon Yagi Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She ...

Suffolk County authorities for the first time busted a drug-peddling ring whose dealers were trafficking carfentanil — a lethal synthetic opioid used to tranquilize elephants. The narcotic is ...