AirAsia completed cleaning and disinfection operations after a woman defecated in her seat on a flight from Malaysia to Shanghai, China, according to Chinese publications on Friday (Aug 21). AirAsia ...

Emily the elephant at the Buttonwood Park Zoo in New Bedford, Mass. While a herd of elephant statues have been seen in Boston recently, there’s only one actual, living elephant in the state of ...

He comes to school drunk. He defecates on the premises. He makes students clean up the mess. The disturbing allegations were levelled against a primary school headmaster by young students and their ...

One hundred Indian elephants have migrated to Boston, Massachusetts, for a weekslong stay. The art installation, handcrafted by indigenous artisans from India's Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, will be on ...

Elephant keepers Robbie Clark, left, and Jason Gue swim with Asian elephant calf Linh Mai at the Smithsonian's National Zoo. (Maxine Wallace/The Washington Post) After Linh Mai’s mother rejected her ...

Update: The fire managers put the burn area at 15,526 acres on Tuesday, but with more precise mapping it was revised to 12,670 acres. A wildfire that started Saturday has become California’s second ...

A man in Nepal crossed two rivers to escape the elephant that killed his parents. He sold his home, relocated his family, and started over in the Jagatpur region. Fourteen years later, the same ...

WASHINGTON — This year, spring showers brought a special April flower to Washington, D.C. — a 2-month-old Asian elephant named Linh Mai, or "spirit blossom" in Vietnamese. Linh Mai makes her public ...

A new elephant calf makes her debut at the National Zoo on Tuesday, in celebration of Earth Day! The Asian elephant, Linh Mai, is the first one born at the zoo in nearly 25 years. Linh Mai was born in ...

There’s a new superstar in the making at the National Zoo: Linh Mai, an Asian elephant calf, was born Feb. 2. The smallest member of the zoo’s herd, which includes her parents, Spike and Nhi Linh, ...

An update from Robbie Clark, elephant manager and acting curator of Elephant Trails. This past week on April 2, our Asian elephant calf Linh Mai turned two months old. It’s a major milestone for her ...

There are about 1,000 tiny hairs on an elephant’s rugged trunk, all designed to help the animal feel, a new study found. By Alexa Robles-Gil Every elephant has about 1,000 whiskers on its trunk. They ...