WORCESTER – The excitement was palpable Saturday, March 7, as people lined up in the lobby of the EcoTarium to wait for the unveiling of both the new wing that expands the venue’s exhibit capacity and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new exhibit centered around elephants is opening at the EcoTarium in Worcester this Saturday. The exhibit at the science museum ...

If you've ever watched an elephant perform a delicate task with its trunk, the secret might lie in something easy to miss: whiskers. New research in Science finds that the hundreds of fine hairs ...

Elephants’ massive ears are one of their most distinguishable characteristics. Alongside their long trunks, an elephant’s big ears are the first thing we see. These large ears easily give elephants a ...

The four-part event series will take viewers around the world, from the Savannas of Africa to the urban landscapes of Asia, to meet different families of elephants and learn their unique stories. Like ...

Photograph by National Geographic Channels/Holly Spearing The Secret Life of Elephants follows the intimate stories of individual elephants as they struggle to raise their families, avoid conflict and ...

In 2020, more than 350 African savanna elephants mysteriously died in Botswana’s Seronga region in just two months. Many of the carcasses were found near seasonal water pans, raising alarms about ...

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 ...

The exhibit will run until Labor Day at the EcoTarium. The exhibit hall was named in honor of Worcester industrialist and animal lover Robert Stoddard. Interactive activities for all ages are part of ...