Guinness World Records—the definitive list of world records of both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world—recently posted a eulogy to Tusko the elephant, who was tragically given an ...

What happens if you give an elephant LSD? A group of researchers led by Warren Thomas, director of Lincoln Park Zoo in Oklahoma City, conducted such an experiment. In 1962, they fired a ...

Quirks and QuarksWhat the dinosaurs left behind tells the story of their rise to dominance Bones aren't the only thing we can use to understand the dinosaurs. A new study of a rich trove of fossilized ...

New Scientist has an article on the strangest experiments of all time, such as what happens if you give an elephant LSD (note, you need to register to read the full New Scientist article). The author ...