An elephant’s trunk serves a lot of important purposes: eating, drinking, and communication are some of the most common uses ...

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 ...

The elephant will crush the food with its trunk, and then use its impressive suction power to pick it up. Elephants can then move their trunks to bring the food to their mouths. by reversing the ...

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.

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 Share this: ...

Inspired by the finger-like tips of an elephant's trunk, the KIMM gripper uses a combination of claw-like grasping with suction capabilities to grab, hold and lift objects of varying shape and size ...

A heroic elephant acted quickly to save the life of a drowning gazelle at La Aurora Zoo in Guatemala City. The gazelle was unable to escape a body of water in the middle of the enclosure. When its ...

The elephant’s trunk is an all-in-one tool that allows it to perform a range of activities from eating and drinking to bathing and uprooting trees.

Oct 25, 2022: Elephant trunk-mimetic robot hand is capable of gripping even fine needles (Nanowerk News) A gripper robot has been developed that can grasp all types of objects, from very fine or thin ...

(CNN) – A baby elephant got more than her 15 minutes of fame by stealing the spotlight from a reporter. Who isn’t tickled pink when they see baby elephants? But Kenyan reporter Alvin Kaunda ...

Elephants are the largest land animals, only outsized by giants of the sea such as whales. Their large stature makes them a sight to behold, which is one of the reasons people around the world ...