An elephant can lift a log, swing sand onto its back, and still pick up a peanut without crushing it. That mix of strength and delicacy has always looked a little mysterious, especially because ...

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! Step right up! Step right up! Soaring acrobats, toe-tapping music and heart-throbbing ...

Elephants use about 1,000 specialized trunk whiskers with a built-in stiffness gradient to precisely sense contact.

The three-metre-tall, 500-kilogram mechanical elephant, named Thodathra Kalapattu Devi Dasan, was donated to the temple in recognition of its decision to never own or hire live elephants, PETA India ...

Learn more about the unique structure of elephant whiskers that allows them to pick up something as fragile as a tortilla chip and not break it. These delicate whiskers could soon inspire advanced ...

A new study from an interdisciplinary German research collaboration, led by the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max ...

“The hairs on the head, body, and tail of Asian elephants are stiff from base to tip, which is what we were expecting when we ...

Long before today’s tree-dwelling sloths, a 4-ton giant roamed South America — and it may have stood and fought like a bear.

This is just one of the scenarios that Waymo can simulate in the “hyper realistic” virtual world that it has just created with help from Google’s DeepMind. Waymo’s World M ...

Senior Jack Wilan was digging through records of Tufts history in the Tufts Archival Research Center (TARC) last fall when he became fixated on the story of Jumbo the Elephant. Wilan wasn’t looking to ...

The calf, a female, is the first elephant to be born at the zoo in almost 25 years, and only the third born there in the zoo’s 136-year history.