That’s the kind of future envisioned by researchers at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). They have built a peculiar robotic ...

A heroic elephant acted quickly to save the life of a drowning gazelle at La Aurora Zoo in Guatemala City. The gazelle was ...

The elephant picks up pace and wraps its trunk around the back of the Jeep, where Ilona and her friends are sitting. As the elephant sweeps its trunk around the vehicle’s floor, two of the Jeep ...

Once the elephant's trunk is full, it lifts it up to its mouth and pours the water in. "They only drink 2 to 3 times a day because again, they drink a large amount in one sitting," the poster says ...

With a mix of flexibility and power, an elephant can peel a banana or pick up a tortilla chip without breaking it, though not the way human fingers would (SN: 4/21/23). The chip lift, for instance ...

Skin wrinkles and folds enable asymmetric stretch in the elephant trunk. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Published online July 18, 2022. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2122563119.

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.