elephants are amazing Alert circle: San Diego Zoo elephants show off their earthquake defense superpowers Jennifer Sandlin

music Musician charms an okapi by playing Radiohead's "Creep" Jennifer Sandlin

adorable animals Watch this tiny vampire adorably devour a tomato! Jennifer Sandlin

Delightful Creatures Emily the elephant plays drums Jennifer Sandlin

animals African elephants are on a first name basis with each other Yoy Luadha

amazing animals Watch Sandy the binturong show off his amazing prehensile tail! Jennifer Sandlin

elephants I can't stop watching this elephant trunk grabbing carrots and bananas Jennifer Sandlin

Science "Cave of Bones" scientist Lee Berger talks about extinct apes that buried their dead and created art Ruben Bolling

illustration Here are the funny ways people drew elephants in the Middle Ages Mark Frauenfelder

nra NRA chief Wayne LaPierre's wife Susan killed an elephant and gloated as it died. LaPierre himself couldn't hit an elephant. Rob Beschizza

Weird Artisinal gin flavored with elephant dung gets you shit-faced David Pescovitz

Science Save The Elephants: How DNA revealed the 3 cartels behind most of Africa's ivory smuggling Xeni Jardin

Eight-year-old boy discovers that wild pigs appear to grieve their dead Clive Thompson

new york city The man who literally sniffed out the problems in NYC's subway David Pescovitz

circuses Say goodbye to the circus before it vanishes forever Richard Kaufman

lethem The Ecstasist: A Conversation with the Novelist Jonathan Lethem Mark Dery

DRONES How Dan Shapiro created the most-backed game in Kickstarter history Mark Frauenfelder