A 'posh' block of flats in a town dubbed 'Chelsea-on-Sea' has become a 'white elephant' just four years after it was built. The four newbuild homes in Salcombe, Devon, have failed to sell for the ...

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Learn more If you're looking for a fun way to ring in the holiday season with friends and family, you can't go wrong with a white elephant party. For those not familiar, a white elephant is a gift ...

On average, Asian elephant trunks have 126 major wrinkles on the upper side, whereas African elephants have around 83. Assuming that wrinkles help with trunk flexibility, this would be consistent ...

an individual elephant tends to bend its trunk toward the left or right when curling it to scoop up a fruit or other object of desire. Trunk whiskers on the opposite side of the curl get scuffed ...

These ancient stars are incredibly dense. A teaspoonful of their matter would weigh as much on Earth as an elephant—5.5 tons. White dwarfs typically have a radius just .01 times that of our own ...

A young elephant at a venue in Thailand. They are used as a backdrop for selfies, ridden and forced to entertain tourists by playing football, painting, riding tricycles, throwing darts and ...

Over 50 people on a whale-watching boat off the coast of Central California last month saw a grotesque, primal scene observed on "Shark Week" more often than in real life. In the high-action ...

new video loaded: Flash Floods in Northern Thailand Force Elephant Park Evacuation A flash flood forced the Elephant Nature Park, the biggest elephant sanctuary in Chiang Mai, Thailand ...

A beloved elephant at the Buttonwood Park Zoo in New Bedford is being transitioned to hospice care, officials said. The elephant, who at 66 is one of the oldest Asian elephants in captivity ...