It’s parade season in Portland, which can only mean one thing: grand marshal announcements. Last week, the Portland Rose Festival and Oregon Zoo announced that baby elephant Tula-Tu would be the grand ...

And there are important internal differences: the ability to store fat — crucial in an Arctic ... as nothing more than “an elephant in a fur coat.” Second, de-extinction is expensive ...

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 ...

Stewards of Lucy the Elephant, the cherished roadside attraction towering over beachgoers and passing motorists in Margate, are examining ways to fund overdue interior restorations after thousands ...

While the announcement states that the term “pink elephant” refers to “that paradoxical effect where the effort to suppress a thought leads to it being impossible to avoid,” it does not ...

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 ...

The Elephant Hotel, a Somers national historic landmark that serves as the northern Westchester locale’s town hall, will undergo more restoration and weather-proofing improvements through a new ...

They nicknamed the extra-furry rodent a "colossal woolly mouse ... He added: "You might be able to alter the hair pattern of an Asian elephant or adapt it to the cold, but it's not bringing ...

Instead, Colossal intends to alter genes from the closely related Asian elephant to create a representative ... adaptation traits such as fat metabolism and fur. Colossal then refined this ...

They nicknamed the extra-furry rodents as the "Colossal woolly mouse ... mouse genes to identify genes related to hair texture and fat metabolism. Each of these genetic variations are "present ...

“Genes that are linked to fur and fat in well-studied animals like mice ... routinely in these species but there’s a lot about elephant reproduction that is not known and assisted reproductive ...

to make an elephant fit for life in the Arctic circle,” said Tori Herridge, Senior Lecturer, School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, in a statement shared by the Science Media Centre. “Genes ...