The elephant has a secret hiding right on its nose. Its famous trunk, full of muscle and devoid of bone, can move in a virtually infinite number of directions and is capable of performing an array ...

Well, it looks like we can thank a changing climate for the evolution of the elephant’s trunk. Proboscideans first started popping up in Africa during the early Eocene, around 55 million years ago.

Anchali the elephant was caught using her trunk to try and cut off the water, clamping the hose and putting pressure on the pipe in an attempt to stop her pal from washing.

On October 8, 2024, in Zhejiang, China, at Longzhimeng Animal World, Chén Jiāxī recorded an elephant using its trunk to locate and grab carrots placed above it. The video shows the elephant ...

Even a baby elephant, like this newborn Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), has a well-wrinkled trunk, which is so much more useful than storybook smooth forms. Paul Gilham/Getty Images Share this: ...

The thick, immobile whiskers on an elephant’s trunk may help it to feel and balance objects even though they cannot twitch in the way that many other mammals’ whiskers do, a study suggests.

The tough upper skin of an elephant’s trunk, ... Scientists figured it out By McKenzie Prillaman May 15, 2025. Plants Cryopreservation is not sci-fi. It may save plants from extinction ...