Los Angeles City Councilmember Bob Blumenfield introduced a motion on Friday, Sept. 26, seeking transparency on the late-night transfer of the zoo’s last two remaining Asian elephants, Billy and Tiny, ...

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My native Netherlands is about as tiny as Israel. Thus, people in both countries find this Dutch joke amusing: A mouse and an elephant walk on a wooden bridge. Says the mouse, ‘Boy, are we making a ...

Even as the government’s rhetoric of sustainability and conservation has grown in recent years, so has the ecological ...

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Until Homo floresiensis was discovered, scientists assumed that the evolution of the human lineage was defined by bigger and bigger brains. Via a process called encephalization, human brains evolved ...