Even a baby elephant, like this newborn Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), has a well-wrinkled trunk, which is so much more useful than storybook smooth forms.Paul Gilham/Getty Images ...

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.

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 ...

The thick, immobile whiskers on an elephant’s trunk may help it to feel and balance objects even though they cannot twitch in the way that many other mammals’ whiskers do, a study suggests.

Skin Helps Explain Why Elephant Trunks Are So Handy Researchers discovered that the skin on the top of the trunk is more pliable and can stretch farther than the bottom ...

What an Elephant’s Brain Reveals About Its Trunk Elephants have tens of thousands of facial neurons, more than any other land mammal. Margaret Osborne - Daily Correspondent. October 31, 2022.