In celebration of Black History Month, this collection of poems was submitted by Black Griots of Athens, in collaboration with the 2024–2026 Poet Laureate for Athens-Clarke County Mikhayla Robinson ...

Bumblebee cognition looks small only until behavior is measured carefully. Experiments have shown play-like ball rolling that fits established animal-play criteria, and newer work demonstrates social ...

Admit it: Every time you read about the wealthy “avoiding taxes,” you assume something shady must be going on — offshore accounts, secret shell companies or some “creative accounting” that borders on ...

There are about 1,000 tiny hairs on an elephant’s rugged trunk, all designed to help the animal feel, a new study found. By Alexa Robles-Gil Every elephant has about 1,000 whiskers on its trunk. They ...

The list of feats Andrew Schulz has witnessed an elephant perform with its trunk is as long as, well, an elephant’s trunk. These powerful proboscises are strong enough to push over 900 pound trees and ...

The Olympic gold medal is the last and only thing missing from the resume of the man who might be snowboarding's final great renegade — Scotty James. The Aussie halfpipe rider wants it dearly. Is ...

Moose Toys, a leading innovator in the toy industry, in partnership with CrunchLabs and its founder Mark Rober, the YouTuber ...

Somewhere along the course of our development, we learn that performance is a triumph of will. Focus. Drive. Grind. Tough times don’t last; tough people do. That’s true. Toughness is good. But it’s a ...

A decades-long quest reveals the remarkable truth about how these giant creatures have remained so elusive. The ghost elephants that live in the highlands of Angola behave like almost no others on ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — In the morning, puppies predicted the Big Game winners at KHON2’s Super Puppy Classic. This afternoon, elephants at the Honolulu Zoo did the same thing. Everyone was excited to see ...

After a 21-month pregnancy, an endangered Asian elephant gave birth for the first time in nearly 25 years at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI). “After waiting ...