BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — Thousands of tiny elephants will fly at the sixth annual Dumbo Drop in Brooklyn next month. The annual tradition helps support two public schools in Dumbo. This year’s ...

The young elephant, known as the real-life Dumbo to animal activists, died after breaking both of its back legs at the Phuket Zoo Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

The deep-sea octopus with large ear-like fins protruding from its head — whose name was inspired after Disney’s Dumbo due to its similarities to the elephant— appeared to use those fins to ...

The Dumbo octopus is an elusive cephalopod that gets its name from its large ear-like fins, which resemble those of the lovable Disney elephant. But there's still lots we don't know about these ...

In “Dumbo,” the elephant is born into the care of a small circus owner (Danny DeVito) and specifically to a father (Colin Farrell) who has come back from World War I a very different man (he ...

The recent live-action version of "Dumbo" featured a computer-animated version of the titular tiny, big-eared elephant. And the reason Dumbo might have felt more real to you than the average ...

Circus owner Max Medici hires him to take care of Dumbo, a newborn elephant whose oversized ears make him the laughingstock of the struggling circus troupe. But when Holt's children discover that ...

So it’s a little bit of an evolution here." 5. DeVito's Relationship with 'Dumbo' Is Longer Than an Elephant's Trunk At one point, DeVito described his "very emotional" connection to the ...

There's magic in every one of us, or so Disney wants to make us believe. For years, the studio has been behind some of our ...

The dozen or so species that make up Grimpoteuthis are called Dumbo octopuses because of the two large fins—one on either side of the mantle—that protrude like ears. Add in the octopus’s ...