Humans are the only mammals that have hair on their heads but very little hair on the rest of their bodies. Three reasons humans have hair may be to protect our heads from the sun, to keep our heads ...

In the study, Conor Myhrvold ’11, civil and environmental engineering professor Elie Bou-Zeid and mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Howard Stone analyzed photographs of elephant hair.

In the largest genomic mapping of Africa's elephants to date, an international team of researchers shows that elephant history is defined by the ability to move across large distances and exchange ...