One of the most bizarre-looking land mammals is the enormous yet gentle elephant, with its huge ears, long trunk, and those massive feet. Why are their feet shaped like that, anyway? Do elephants have ...

Elephants can make low rumbling sounds that humans cannot hear. Sound can be transmitted through air and through rock. Elephants can detect seismic (ground-transmitted) sound with fatty pads on their ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PROVIDENCE − Alice, the 38-year-old lady getting a pedicure, seemed to enjoy the washing, brushing and filing of her feet. All ...

You might think that elephants get all the hearing they need with their big ears. But it turns out the colossal mammals also use their feet. Sound travels through the air and different surfaces as ...

Even elephants need to pay attention to grooming now and then. That?s why Dolly and Anna, the African elephants at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, received pedicures last week. The zoo?s elephant team ...