Elephants are among the largest mammals on Earth. They are loved by many for their intelligence and varied personalities.

In the jungle of Ghana’s democracy, a strange fever has gripped a once-mighty herd. No, it’s not malaria — it’s something more dangerous: Post-Election Heartbreak mixed with Selective Memory Loss. The ...

However, that trunk sometimes finds its way into an elephant’s mouth as a result of its sucking reflex. When elephants are born, they experience the same sucking reflex as a newborn baby.

When its fellow zoo mate noticed, it jumped into action. The quick-thinking elephant extended its trunk into the water to create a place for the gazelle to climb out.

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.

How The Elephant Got Its Trunk Watch on (via PBS Eons) Long-jawed proboscideans were doing pretty well for themselves. That is, until they were all rapidly replaced with proboscideans with long, ...

What an Elephant’s Brain Reveals About Its Trunk Elephants have tens of thousands of facial neurons, more than any other land mammal ...

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 ...

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 ...