If you've stepped on tar balls on beaches in the Sydney area, they might not have been tar balls. They might've been poo ...

A palm-sized fragment of elephant bone, shaped and used as a precision tool almost half a million years ago, has been identified as the oldest known elephant-bone implement in Europe. Although the ...

The study also found that these elephants had a more diverse mix of gut microbes, including bacteria linked to pectin ...

Some cells died because their membranes tore, but many lived normally and even divided, passing on the little elephant ...

Carley Millhone is a writer and editor based in the Midwest who covers health, women's wellness, and travel. Her work has appeared in publications like SELF, Greatist, and PureWow. Qin Rao, MD, is a ...