58, October 2024. The Alocasia is an upright elephant ear with narrow, pointy-shaped leaves on upright petioles and stalks.

The Oregon Zoo’s newest baby elephant arrived over the weekend. At 4:29 p.m. Saturday, Rose-Tu gave birth to a calf that appeared to be a healthy girl, weighing in the vicinity of 200 pounds.

It certainly did in 1976, when paleoanthropologist Andrew Hill and a colleague were tossing elephant dung at each ... had been made by some of the first upright-walking hominids.