There are countless effects in Star Wars films that have captivated fans for several decades. From the unforgettable lightsaber buzz to the misleading appearance of the AT-AT Walker, George Lucas’ ...

The Central African Republic is the setting for the latest installment in the "Wild Sounds" series. Katy Payne is a biologist at Cornell University who has spent more than two decades interpreting the ...

Scientists say an Asian elephant at a South Korean zoo can imitate human speech, saying five Korean words that are readily understood by people who speak the language. The male elephant, named Koshik, ...

A fascinating new insight into elephant communication has been uncovered, with researchers finding that a group of males will harmonize a rumbling sound, from one to the next, to signal that it's time ...

On today’s episode of the Mongabay Newscast we take a look at a project that aims to preserve the rainforests of the Congo Basin in Central Africa and the biodiversity found in those forests by ...

Back in 2014 Finnish voice artist and creative director Rudi Rok made a video showcasing his ability to rattle off 30 unique animal sounds. The brief video went massively viral—it has about 16.2 ...

Joshua Plotnik: For about 20 years, I have been studying Asian elephant cognition. The biggest issue for the conservation of ...

How they got this idea: Dina wanted to find a subject "that would allow people to have an open mind about artificial intelligence. When people talk about A.I., it seems to have this inherent sinister ...

A few years ago, Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, published the results of something called the Great Elephant Census, which counted all the savanna elephants in Africa. What it found rocked ...

The story of Joseph Merrick, the so-called 'Elephant Man,' takes center stage in a new audio tour of Whitechapel, offering an immersive history of the Royal London Hospital and Medical College through ...