Elephants investigate and revisit the remains of their dead for years — a biologist explains the real science behind this ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) community is celebrating the arrival two female Asian elephants, 19-year-old Trong Nhi [trong-nEE] and her daughter, ...

Asian elephant Kamala often raised her trunk to greet keepers in anticipation of receiving food. Credit: Robbie Clark, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute The Smithsonian’s ...

Humans sweat. Elephants strategize. While we’re dabbing our foreheads, they have a thermal system that’s impressive. Imagine an animal the size of a UPS truck moving its ears like stock traders. They ...

Beth Py-Lieberman | Author, The Object at Hand: Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the Smithsonian Collections In a release the Zoo reported that last week: “Keepers noticed that Ambika’s ...

A company called Colossal plans to pioneer the de-extinction business, taking species that have died within the past few thousand years and restoring them through the use of DNA editing and stem cells ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of three mammoths striding across a snow-covered landscape. Scientists have made a stem cell breakthrough in ...

Elephants like to eat bananas, but they don’t usually peel them first in the way humans do. A new report in the journal Current Biology on April 10, however, shows that one very special Asian elephant ...

A 72-year-old Asian elephant was “humanely euthanized” by veterinarians at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C., on Friday, the zoo confirmed in a statement. “Ambika truly was a giant ...

A new study highlights the impressive biomechanics and suction power of an elephant’s most defining appendage. By Richard Sima An elephant’s trunk is a marvel of biology. Devoid of any joints or bone, ...