A Colorado court has ruled against a bid to free five elephants from a local zoo, determining that elephants do not have the ...
"Because an elephant is not a person, the elephants here do not have standing to bring a habeas corpus claim," the court ...
Scientists believe another animal should be added to that list: the elephant. Testing has uncovered that these massive animals may have more going on inside their brains than humans ever considered.
A court has rejected the notion that elephants are people, upholding a zoo's right to keep the animals after a yearslong legal scrap.
When the crowds stopped coming after an aquarium in Japan closed Dec. 1 for renovation work, a sunfish swimming alone in a tank stopped eating, became unwell and began bumping into the side of the ...
If you’ve ever wondered what rotting flesh smells like, take a trip to the Brooklyn Botanical Garden to find out. The Amorphophallus gigas, a cousin to the infamous corpse flower, will bloom soon at ...
The redback spider (Latrodectus hasselti) is one of Australia's most iconic arachnids. It's a member of the widow spider family, closely related to the black widow spider. They're famous for their ...
California bees may be fish, but Colorado elephants are not people. At least, that’s the ruling of the state’s Supreme Court, who this week decreed that five elephants currently held at the Cheyenne ...