Researchers at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) have created a robot elephant that can go bowling. The twinkle ...

A bump in the elephant brain stem pointed scientists to the wrinkles on their trunks and the role those folds play in the animal’s life.

Rather like people grabbing a pen with the preferred hand, an individual elephant tends to bend its trunk toward the left or right when curling it to scoop up a fruit or other object of desire.

But the determined elephant didn’t give up. Cheered on by a crowd, it eventually wrapped its trunk around the gazelle’s horn and pulled it to safety!

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.

An elephant named "Shanmai," rolled the shoe up with its trunk, rubbed off the mud on it, and held up its trunk over the fence edge to return the shoe to the child who accidentally dropped a shoe ...

An elephant at a German zoo likes to peel her banana with her trunk — a trick so unusual that she's become the subject of a scientific study. You could say researchers "went bananas" over Pang ...

Baby elephant tickles reporter with trunk Alvin Kaunda, an intern reporter for the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, was tickled by a baby elephant while filming a news segment.

The elephant’s trunk is an all-in-one tool that allows it to perform a range of activities from eating and drinking to bathing and uprooting trees. The same trunk can lift hundreds of kilos and ...

An elephant at a German zoo likes to peel her banana with her trunk — a trick so unusual that she's become the subject of a scientific study. You could say researchers "went bananas" over Pang ...