The young elephant, known as the real-life Dumbo to animal activists, died after breaking both of its back legs at the Phuket Zoo Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — Thousands of tiny elephants will fly at the sixth annual Dumbo Drop in Brooklyn next month. The annual tradition helps support two public schools in Dumbo. This year’s ...

The deep-sea octopus with large ear-like fins protruding from its head — whose name was inspired after Disney’s Dumbo due to its similarities to the elephant— appeared to use those fins to ...

The Dumbo octopus is an elusive cephalopod that gets its name from its large ear-like fins, which resemble those of the lovable Disney elephant. But there's still lots we don't know about these ...

Dumbo is seriously dark. The 2019 remake of the beloved 1941 Disney film has a very dark plot and many viewers were scarred ...

The recent live-action version of "Dumbo" featured a computer-animated version of the titular tiny, big-eared elephant. And the reason Dumbo might have felt more real to you than the average ...

Circus owner Max Medici hires him to take care of Dumbo, a newborn elephant whose oversized ears make him the laughingstock of the struggling circus troupe. But when Holt's children discover that ...

There's magic in every one of us, or so Disney wants to make us believe. For years, the studio has been behind some of our ...

The dozen or so species that make up Grimpoteuthis are called Dumbo octopuses because of the two large fins—one on either side of the mantle—that protrude like ears. Add in the octopus’s ...

Dumbo is one of the original outsiders ... that you could believably create that elephant in a live action film and do it successfully, that was something that really interested him.