African elephants are known to recognize groups of humans, to test electric fences with their tusks to avoid injury, and (of course) can remember paths to resources passed down to them decades earlier ...

Elephant seals are being used as nature's artificial intelligence to monitor the health of the oceans -- especially the little-known "twilight zone," an ecosystem abundant with fish that could soon be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A zookeeper feeling the whiskers that cover an Asian elephant’s trunk. To examine how the elephant trunk whiskers work, engineers ...

Around 1,000 whiskers cover an Asian elephant’s trunk, and they don’t just detect touch. They’re built with what scientists call “physical intelligence,” a design so clever it amplifies signals, ...

A new study from an interdisciplinary German research collaboration, led by the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), reveals the secret to the ...

Elephants are the largest land animals and an integral part of Earth’s ecosystems. But which country is home to the most ...

Forest elephants, true to the name, spend their lives hidden in the rainforest, which is a problem if you study them. PETER WREGE: We basically have no idea what they're doing, how they're using the ...

Elephants are known for being wildly intelligent and incredibly social. They’re also one of the few animals — aside from humans — that grieve for their dead. They form tight social bonds with their ...