Ganesha, the beloved elephant-headed god of Hinduism, is a symbol of wisdom, prosperity, and remover of obstacles. He is ...

Walk into any Hindu temple and you will be greeted by vibrant images and statues of gods and goddesses ,Shiva with his ...

For Arcade Fire, the five-piece outfit led by the husband-and-wife team of American Win Butler and Canadian Régine Chassagne, size and scope matter. Its mission is to harness the power of the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — An elephant seal pup was stabbed on a beach along the Oregon Coast. The seal pup survived but sustained multiple stab wounds, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

If you’ve ever wanted to say “hello” like an elephant, now you can. For the first time, human words and emotions are being translated into elephant calls that signal similar emotions or inte ...

No two individuals and no two populations are exactly the same. But, we are racing against time—many elephant populations are threatened with extinction, in Southeast Asia especially so.

At the Barcelona Zoo, a 40-year-old African elephant places her foot through the metal barrier where a zookeeper gently scrubs its sole. The beloved pachyderm gets her “pedicure,” along with ...

Back then I ended up with a story of the 5-ton male elephant named Columbus, which I related in the last column. The pachyderm had fallen off a bridge in Adams in 1851 and dropped a reported 20 feet, ...

We were inspired by how an elephant could cool itself in hot weather without sweat glands, and tried to see how we could replicate the same cooling mechanisms of shading, trapping cool air ...

Fearing that the elephant could destroy his harvest of pumpkins, melons and eggplants, Punchibanda rushed to chase it away. But he could not guard his produce, and instead lost his life. The large ...

No passengers were injured, but wildlife veterinary officers are treating a female elephant and an injured calf in the city of Giritale, Sri Lanka’s state-owned Daily News reported Thursday.

the elephant-headed Hindu god of wisdom. “But it’s not just elephants. Other animals have died as well after eating plastic,” he says. These include deer and birds, according to local ...