Coffee beans that pass through the digestive system of Asian elephants produce an unusually smooth and low-bitterness brew.

Scientists found elephant gut bacteria reduce coffee bitterness, explaining Black Ivory’s smooth taste. How digestion alters ...

The je ne sais quoi that gives Black Ivory coffee its smooth, chocolatey flavor may lurk deep in the bowels of Earth's ...

Feces, dung, poop: words that never fail to make a 12-year-old boy laugh. But they have no place in highly advanced scientific processes, right? Well, that’s where you’d be wrong. Researchers ...

The study also found that these elephants had a more diverse mix of gut microbes, including bacteria linked to pectin ...

It doesn't matter if you're in the African savanna or Rod Serling's fifth dimension — nothing is going to change the fact that a pachyderm must relieve itself 12 to 15 times per day. When Gregory ...