Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A zookeeper feeling the whiskers that cover an Asian elephant’s trunk. To examine how the elephant trunk whiskers work, engineers ...

After nearly going extinct, elephant seals are a conservation success story. Elephant seals are being used as nature's artificial intelligence to monitor the health of the oceans -- especially the ...

A new study from an interdisciplinary German research collaboration, led by the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), reveals the secret to the ...

Forests are living systems, and elephants are their engineers—and in losing them, we do not merely lose a species, we lose ...