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Illustration of elephant hunting using spears. Credit: Dana Ackerfeld Archaeologists from Tel Aviv University have uncovered the mystery…

1. IntroductionThe perinatal period, spanning from pregnancy through to the postpartum period, represents a pivotal time of profound physiological, psychological, and social changes for both the mother and the developing baby . This…

Seeing elephants in the wild is a timelessly awe-inspiring experience. There are only three living species today: the African savannah elephant, African forest elephant, and Asian elephant. They are the remnants of a once…

Some researchers say that “bringing back” woolly mammoths can help protect frozen tundras by slowing the melting of permafrost.Bettmann / Contributor via Getty Images Scientists from a company attempting to…

Some researchers say that "bringing back" woolly mammoths could help protect frozen tundras by slowing the melting of permafrost. Bettmann /…

The story about blind people describing an elephant is apt right now considering artificial intelligence systems, particularly in scholarly communications. Many people have ideas, but few, if any, can grasp the entirety of the…

1. IntroductionElephant endotheliotropic herpesviruses (EEHVs) are elephant-specific viruses that may cause an acute, highly lethal disease in their natural host, known as EEHV hemorrhagic disease (EEHV-HD). Currently seven EEHV species…

A female elephant seal rests with her pup on the California coast. Pups in this population spend more days fattening up on mother’s milk than in southern…

As I mentioned in a recent blog post about image search, we’re avid users of Elasticsearch for search. We also recently ported another vital part of our system to Elasticsearch: analytics. This post is a technical deep dive into how our…

Caleb U.November 14, 2023 Hi all! It’s Caleb with the Elephant Care Team again! Regularly, young students ask us how to be a professional elephant caretaker. A…

Transcript NARRATOR: Humans aren't the only ones that are attracted to the California coastline, Northern Elephant Seals migrate thousands of miles to these beaches twice a year to breed, give…

Dr. Sarah Allen from Point Reyes National Seashore talks about the elephant seal breeding season in full action at Point Reyes National Seashore. Hear about their survival from being nearly extinct to their booming growth rates and their…

Home News Foster Scholar Sarah Kienle September 2018 It was almost an ordinary day in the field for Dr.…

One of the first excavations to find extinct human remains took place on Java in the 1890s, and the original documentation reveals…

Listen to the introductory presentations at the Cordell Bank and Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Expansion Scoping meeting. Presentations were given by sanctuary superintendents Dan Howard, Maria Brown, former…

January in Point Reyes means elephant seals are on the beaches in Point Reyes. Marine mammals that spend months away from shore and sometimes in our local CA national marine sanctuaries, but as far away as Russia and Hawaii make their…

Find more Earth Focus content at 's tourist industry is driving a brutal trade in baby elephants. Illegal and brutal cross-border trade in endangered wild Asian elephants continues. On the Thai-Myanmar border at least 50-100 calves and…

A baby elephant falls in the bathtub multiple times and much hilarious and adorable. I believe this is the original: baby elephant falls in orange bathtub baby elephant taking a bath slips many times trips slides bath tub bathwater water…