By Richard Sima 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 ...

But it turns out that didn’t paint the full picture ... And while it was a far cry from an elephant jaw, they did have an elongated trunk, based on shared anatomical traits with ...

A crowd at the zoo cheers on an elephant as it rescues a drowning gazelle with its trunk in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Why is the elephant trunk so wrinkly? It sounds like the start of one of Aesop’s fables. But in a new study in the journal Royal Society Open Science, researchers offer up some answers.

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 ...

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.

And once they get a lot up in there, and they spit it right into their mouth." Once the elephant's trunk is full, it lifts it up to its mouth and pours the water in. "They only drink 2 to 3 times ...

A playful baby elephant gave a Mexican girl a kiss with its trunk. Footage shows the juvenile ... B-1 Lancer Starts its Engines and Takes off at Full Afterburner ...

Video footage from Nakhon Ratchasima in northeast Thailand shows the elephant, Plai Biang Lek, using his trunk to help himself to some snacks.