That means they're made almost entirely of muscle, and an elephant's trunk has a lot of them, about 40,000, compared to around 650 muscles in the entire human body. Normally, muscles depend on ...

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 ...

An elephant's trunk is composed of 17 muscles—eight on each side plus one for its nasal cavity—controlled by tens of thousands of muscle fibers commanded by up to 60,000 facial neurons.

An elephant’s trunk has eight major muscles on either side and 150,000 muscle bundles in all. It is so strong that it can push down trees and lift a whopping 700,000 pounds.

A new study suggests that an elephant's muscles aren't the only way it stretches its trunk -- its folded skin also plays an important role. The combination of muscle and skin gives the animal the ...

And at the trunk tip, it’s the skin that does most of the straining, not the muscle, mathematical modeling experiments suggest. Scientists have long studied the muscles in elephant trunks ( SN ...

The elephant's trunk contains over 40,000 muscles, divided into as many as 150,000 individual units! Compare that to the human body, which contains a paltry 639 muscles, and you start to get an idea ...

As an adult, an elephant’s trunk is capable of lifting more than 700 pounds, thanks to an array of some 40,000 muscles. (For reference, humans have just over 600 muscles in our entire bodies.) ...

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 ...

A multidisciplinary team of scientists has conducted a study of Asian and African elephant wrinkles to learn more about their ...

An elephant’s trunk is a marvel of biology. Devoid of any joints or bone, the trunk is an appendage made of pure muscle that is capable of both uprooting trees and gingerly plucking individual ...

(A trunk has some 46,000 muscles; the human body has 600 to 700.) Yet unlike an anemone or octopus tentacle, an elephant’s thick outer skin puts limits on the trunk’s movement.