Elephant trunks are the most impressive noses in the animal kingdom. Almost entirely muscle, trunks lift hundreds of pounds and sniff out landmines.

African-elephant noses, the team found, can inhale air at speeds of more than 335 miles per hour, faster than a Bugatti, faster than most bullet trains, faster than a dive-bombing peregrine falcon.

Elephants have a keen nose. They have more smell receptors than any mammal – including dogs – and can sniff out food that is several miles away. A new study tests their ability to distinguish ...

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 elephant-nose fish Gnathonemus petersii relies on electricity to find food and navigate through the obstacles riddling its native murky African rivers. Researchers have presented evidence that ...

But, in tug of war, the elephant’s nose had become really long! Angry, the elephant sucked all the water from the river. Then, he sucked some mud and sprayed it on the crocodile and the toad.

Elephant-nose fish need to twist, pace and shimmy to accurately “see” the shapes of objects when interpreting wobbles in electric fields. Peters’s elephant-nose fish (Gnathonemus petersii ...

People often compare sexual attraction to a jolt of electricity, but in some animals a charged atmosphere is very literal. Male elephant nose fish are known to lure females with the help of an ...

It looks like a mouse, moves like lightning, and has a trunk – meet the sengi, nature’s pocket-sized elephant. In this episode, we get up close with one of the most fascinating and underrated ...

A MAN has shared his incredible transformation after having his ‘elephant nose’ – which was ravaged by cancer – reconstructed. Peter, 74, almost lost his nose to cancer, whi… ...