Installation view of The Secret World of Elephants at the American Museum of Natural History showing how elephants' ears cool them. (all photos AX Mina/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) Until I ...

When you think of elephants, you think big, right? Well, not all elephants were jumbo. The smallest known elephant species lived in Sicily, and was just over 3 feet tall. It's been extinct for ...

African elephants are known to recognize groups of humans, to test electric fences with their tusks to avoid injury, and (of course) can remember paths to resources passed down to them decades earlier ...

Nairobi, Kenya - Thursday, November 27 - They say an elephant never forgets - and it turns out they can learn to adapt to drones! Once seen as a source of alarm, drones are now proving to be ...