In fact, an elephant's nose is so good it can actually sniff out bombs. People have reported that African elephants avoid land mines in Angola and in 2015, researchers put it to the test.

Elephants are fascinating and highly intelligent creatures. In this heart-warming YouTube clip, we get to see a herd of ...

Elephant noses might be the most discerning mammalian sniffers on the planet. According to a new study published Tuesday in Genome Research, African elephants may best humans, mice and even dogs ...

The greatest variety were found in elephants, with around 2,000 present in their nasal cavities. Dogs were found to have about half that number, while humans and chimpanzees possess just 400 ...

The African elephant, with 2,000 olfactory receptors, has the most extensive sense of smell -- double the amount dogs have, and five times as many as humans. Top News U.S. News ...

There’s a lot to shout about when it comes to elephants: they’ve got what seems like a fifth limb for a nose, they use tools, but perhaps their most in-your-face feature are the giant fans attached to ...

African-elephant noses, the team found, can inhale air at speeds of more than 335 miles per hour, ... (He admitted that he has yet to try suctioning up a chip with his nose.) ...

The population of African elephants has nose-dived over the past century, mainly due to poaching and habitat fragmentation. With only 40,000-50,000 elephants left in the wild, the species is ...