Elephants cruise on four-wheel drive and bendy knees using a gait different from most quadrupeds, a new study shows. Whereas most four-legged animals use their front legs to stop and their back legs ...

Throughout history, elephants have been thought of as 'different'. Shakespeare, and even Aristotle, described them as walking on inflexible column-like legs. And this myth persists even today. Which ...

Motola, an elephant who lost a foot and part of her leg when she stepped on a land mine 10 years ago, happily if tentatively stepped out Sunday after being fitted with an artificial limb. In her first ...