Take the Elephant Statuette placed on the right pressure pad under the statue and put it on the left pressure pad. This will open a secret passage to the left of the statue. To the left of the ...

This story appears in the August 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The royalty of India—Hindu and Muslim—understood long ago that power was best wielded from the back of an elephant.

Elephants are the official national animal for Thailand and are deeply rooted in its culture and literature. The so-called elephant pants are rarely worn by local Thais, but these light and breezy ...

Spending most of their lives at sea in the frigid waters of the southern seas, southern elephant seals are cold weather specialists. Their thick coat of blubber perfectly insulates them from the ...