Imagine stumbling across a tiny creature darting across the African underbrush, its nose twitching and legs pumping like a ...

But in an elephant trunk, there are no bones to pull and no ... Narrator: What if you could use your nose to snorkel, or uproot a small tree, or smell water from several miles away?

The learning process for an elephant using its trunk looks very similar to a baby learning to use its hands. Baby elephants touch anything from other herd members to their surroundings with trunks.

Moeritherium was a semi-aquatic elephant that lived in ancient ... proboscideans were relatively small mammals. None looked quite like tusked, trunk elephants as we know them today, and the ...

Nandi the baby elephant started life with a spaghetti noodle of a nose, but her mom is teaching the calf that her trunk can be so much more Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...