Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new exhibit centered around elephants is opening at the EcoTarium in Worcester this Saturday. The exhibit at the science museum ...

The list of feats Andrew Schulz has witnessed an elephant perform with its trunk is as long as, well, an elephant’s trunk. These powerful proboscises are strong enough to push over 900 pound trees and ...

WORCESTER – The excitement was palpable Saturday, March 7, as people lined up in the lobby of the EcoTarium to wait for the unveiling of both the new wing that expands the venue’s exhibit capacity and ...

Feb 13 (Reuters) - An elephant's trunk is essential for most aspects of the animal's life, from interacting with its environment and with other elephants to eating and drinking. And the roughly 1,000 ...

The whiskers on an elephant's trunk are key to its "amazing" sense of touch, reveals new research. The 1,000 hairs that cover the trunk have unusual properties that highlight where contact happens ...

Photograph by National Geographic Channels/Holly Spearing The Secret Life of Elephants follows the intimate stories of individual elephants as they struggle to raise their families, avoid conflict and ...

The whiskers on the trunks of elephants have unique properties that grant them a highly evolved sense of touch - Copyright AFP John MACDOUGALL The whiskers on the ...

"Andrew pulled together an amazing team of engineers, materials scientists, and neuroscientists from five different research groups and led us on an exhilarating three-year-long journey to discover ...

An elephant's trunk is essential for most aspects of the animal's life, from interacting with its environment and with other elephants to eating and drinking. And the roughly 1,000 whiskers covering ...

The Secret Life of Elephants follows the intimate stories of individual elephants as they struggle to raise their families, avoid conflict and forge alliances. An elephant family called The Royals.