Elephant trunks are some of the most impressive noses in the animal kingdom. Trunks are organs called muscular hydrostats and they contain around 40,000 muscles that contract and expand to create ...

Lerumo is fully healed and living at the Elephant Haven Wildlife Foundation's rescue after getting shot in the trunk by a farmer in Botswana several months ago Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at ...

On a sunny day at Zoo Atlanta in 2020, Kelly the African bush elephant reached for a snack and revealed something strange. High-speed cameras tracking her movements suggested that the skin on top of ...

Last week in Kenya, a 1-year-old baby elephant meandered through Tsavo East National Park with her mother. The sweet pair appeared healthy from a distance, but someone touring the park noticed ...

One of the most recognizable features of an elephant is its trunk – the long appendage that extends out from the animal’s face. Elephants use it for a variety of activities, including drinking, eating ...

What suddenly made long jaws such a liability? Well it looks like we can thank a changing climate for the evolution of the elephant’s trunk. Eons is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App ...

This elephant’s behavior is adorable, and it’s also very typical. Baby elephants are known to suck on their trunks for a variety of reasons. The most common reason is comfort while they learn to use ...

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 ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — A baby elephant in Indonesia’s Sumatra island has had half of her trunk amputated after being caught in what authorities said Monday was a trap set by poachers who prey on ...