After living briefly at a TV station in Mt. Pleasant, SC, in the 1950s, Susie Q the elephant worked in circuses across U.S.

After a quarter century where measles was considered eliminated in the U.S., 2025's continuous outbreaks have us back at ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs is now banned from providing veterans and their families with abortion services.

Readers Edition. This is the (nearly) annual tradition of you, RPS readers, telling us where we went wrong in our annual ...

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“Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.” If you’re of a certain age, that simple line may bring back fond memories. That’s because Bob Barker repeated it at the end of ...

Elephant societies respond to death in ways that look uncannily similar to our own reactions. Here’s why it has researchers describing them as “compassionate.” Wildlife researchers have, for decades, ...

The creators of 'Adventure Time,' 'Steven Universe,' 'Over the Garden Wall,' and 'OK K.O! Let's Be Heroes' make an experimental three-act special. Reading time 3 minutes The Elephant, Adult Swim’s ...

Unlike humans, baby elephants can walk from birth. Baby elephants can often stand within 20 minutes of being born and can usually walk within an hour. The ability to stand and walk is a crucial ...

The gift-giving season is upon us, which means the return of a popular holiday game: the White Elephant gift exchange. Whether you call it White Elephant, Yankee Swap or Dirty Santa, the premise of ...

For illustrators in medieval Europe, depicting animals like elephants that they’d never set eyes on was a key part of their task to shape the morality of humankind. What mattered most was what such ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo, in Washington, D.C., has announced one of its elephants is pregnant, the first time a baby elephant will be born at the zoo in 25 years. The zoo says 12-year-old Nhi ...