Impressed by the influence of elephants in our lives, Leonardo da Vinci once wrote: The elephant embodies righteousness, ...

A pioneering study provides new evidence that gut microbes vary across primate species and can shape physiology in ways associated with differences in brain size and cognitive function A new study sug ...

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Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can ...

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Seven wild Asiatic elephants were killed and a calf was injured when a high-speed passenger train collided with a herd crossing the tracks in India's northeastern state of Assam early Saturday, local ...

Researchers in Italy discovered 400,000-year-old evidence that ancient humans butchered elephants for food and tools. At the Casal Lumbroso site near Rome, they found hundreds of bones and stone ...

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