An elephant’s trunk can haul a felled log across a clearing and, moments later, ...

The elephant's trunk has long been studied by engineers seeking to understand how it performs both powerful and delicate ...

A new study shows how elephant trunk skin balances strength and sensitivity, offering clues that could help engineers build ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image via Shutterstock/Jeremy Richards (Image via Shutterstock/Jeremy Richards) Just like human babies and toddlers, young ...

Why is the elephant trunk so wrinkly? It sounds like the start of one of Aesop’s fables. But in a new study in the journal Royal Society Open Science, researchers offer up some answers. This all ...

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 ...

Elephants use their trunks for a long list of reasons: eating, drinking, smelling, socializing. But trunks have about 40,000 individual muscles — and babies have to learn to use them. “Watching baby ...