If you think of herds of elephants today, you think of Africa. Well imagine Central New York covered with thousands of elephants.

Mkhaya's herd is a good-sized group - sixteen in all, counting the calves - and even though they are the largest land mammals on earth, they are not always easy to find. Elephants, it runs out, are surprisingly stealthy.

They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end.

Evolution isn't just a story or a theory on the corner of science, evolution is the fundamental idea in biology.

Darwin day is just another way for us to communicate to people how important these kinds of ideas are.

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one