Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Looks like someone is growing up! A video of baby elephant learning how to use her trunk is the absolute cutest. She’s just ...

The trunk of an elephant is among the versatile appendages in the animal kingdom. Now a research team has shown that most of its dexterity can be reproduced with a model using just three "muscles." ...

Looks like someone is growing up! A video of baby elephant learning how to use her trunk is the absolute cutest. She’s just figuring it out! I mean, I totally get it. If you suddenly realized that you ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. An Asian elephant at a zoo in Germany eats her bananas in an unusual way: peeling them with her trunk, ...

Scientists studying elephant trunks have uncovered features that could inspire robot skin and a new generation of advanced ...

There’s a Sherlock Holmes tale in here somewhere: A clever observer could check wrinkles and whiskers on an elephant trunk to catch a left-trunker pachyderm perp masquerading as a righty, thanks to a ...

A recent study investigated the musculature of the elephant and found that the trunk is a complex mesh of interwoven muscle and has an immense number of parts. The study was published on September 26, ...