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There are about 1,000 tiny hairs on an elephant’s rugged trunk, all designed to help the animal feel, a new study found.

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It will now be six days since the mother of "Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie was last seen. Nancy Guthrie, 84, was last seen on Jan. 31 at her residence in the Catalina Foothills, a community ...

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A wild bull elephant killed a tourist in a Thai national park on Monday, the third human fatality caused by the same animal, staff said in a statement. The 65-year-old Thai tourist from Lopburi ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Video of a brave elephant mother’s last-minute rescue of her baby has garnered an impassioned response from animal lovers and ...

A female Asian elephant calf has been born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Washington, DC, the first in almost a quarter of a century. The baby, whose ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The National Zoo in Washington, D.C., has welcomed a new baby elephant -- the first there in 25 years. Tony Dokoupil has the story ...