A Texas biotech company is trying to bring mammoths and other extinct creatures back to life. The science is as intriguing as ...

Of all the skin-care and cosmetics products I recently bought online that turned out to be counterfeit, expired, used, or otherwise problematic, the one that still makes me squirm is a curiously ...

Why doesn’t an elephant use 1,000 times more energy than a mouse? Kleiber’s Law states that metabolism scales to body size at the three-quarter power.

Researchers have developed a targeted approach to combat periodontitis without disrupting the natural balance of the oral ...

Each lemon can generate around 1.5V and, in 2021, a team coordinated by the Royal Society of Chemistry created a record-breaking giant lemon battery using nearly 3000 lemons, producing over 2300V.

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 ...

Watching an elephant forage for roots to eat reveals just how strong yet sensitive its trunk is. An elephant’s more than 40,000 trunk muscles can upend trees and follow it up with gently collecting ...

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 ...

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

A 300-pound Asian elephant calf was born at the National Zoo early Monday, the zoo announced Tuesday morning. The calf, a female, is the first elephant to be born at the zoo in almost 25 years, and ...

A wild bull elephant killed a tourist in central Thailand's Khao Yai National Park on Monday, a park official said, the third fatality linked to the same animal. The 65-year-old Thai tourist from ...

A photo of a long‑expired tube of toothpaste—dating all the way back to 1988—has gone viral on Reddit, attracting more than 50,000 upvotes. The reason? As the caption puts it: “Mom is using toothpaste ...