A Trunk Full of Comfort. This elephant’s behavior is adorable, and it’s also very typical. Baby elephants are known to suck on their trunks for a variety of reasons.

A heartwarming video showed an elephant gently wrapping its trunk around a caretaker’s head as she sang a lullaby.

Shared on Instagram, the video shows a baby elephant thoroughly enjoying bath time, happily splashing around and lifting its ...

A heartwarming video capturing baby elephants slipping, sliding, and gleefully playing in the mud has brought smiles to many across the internet. Shared by Lek Chailert, founder of the Save Elephant ...

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.

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. This all ...

First, the African forest elephant, a third species, wasn’t included in the analysis. She says those animals would have provided another point of reference for the development and use of the trunk.