How do space programs get their names? Elizabeth Coen | Monterey, California NASA and others have long sought symbolic names ...

In 1972, an Aurora senior student-athlete, Mark Campana, redesigned the Greenman ... so the high school chose an elephant as its physical mascot and called its teams the Tuskers.

Rural communities on the border between the African countries of Malawi and Zambia are threatening to sue an international ...

The Elephant Sanctuary, in Hohenwald, celebrated its 30 th anniversary on March 3, marking three decades of adopting former circus and show elephants and allowing them to retire in peaceful wilderness ...

Known at the time as the largest elephant in the country, Columbus was enroute from an exhibition when he crashed through a ...

A four-day-old calf born to Hemavathi, an elephant of Sakrebailu elephant camp near Shivamogga, died on Monday evening. The calf died as the mother elephant was unable to nurse it. Officers said ...

Sound designer David Farmer of Novato, who recorded elephant seal vocalizations at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, Calif. that were used in the Lord of the Rings movies. (courtesy of David ...

George Wittemyer receives funding from the U.S.A. National Science Foundation and Save the Elephants, a Kenya based non-profit organization. He is a professor at Colorado State University and ...