Trompita, a 61-year-old Asian elephant, noticed an antelope stuck in that same body of water. She sounded an SOS from her trunk to get the attention of a nearby animal caretaker.

An elephant’s trunk serves a lot of important purposes: eating, drinking, and communication are some of the most common uses for trunks. However, trunks are thought to have adapted in response ...

A multidisciplinary team of scientists has conducted a study of Asian and African elephant wrinkles to learn more about their purpose. In their study, published in the journal Royal Society Open ...

Trunk muscles form what a scientist would call a muscular hydrostat, a boneless tube of muscles that easily changes shape. (A trunk has some 46,000 muscles; the human body has 600 to 700.) ...

(via PBS Eons) Long-jawed proboscideans were doing pretty well for themselves. That is, until they were all rapidly replaced with proboscideans with long, flexible trunks instead: mammoths, mastodons, ...

The frozen elephant trunk procedure is a complex surgery used for serious cases of aortic dissection. In simple terms, it involves replacing a weakened part of the aorta with a special graft while ...

Elephant Trunk Rock is located on a narrow strip of land called Shen'ao. A famous natural attraction in northern Taiwan, the Elephant Trunk Rock, is no more. According to the Ruifang District ...

The Elephant Trunk Rock, a famous landmark in Taiwan, collapsed on December 15, 2023. The rock's collapse was due to erosion caused by seawater and wind. Geoscience experts, including Professor ...

Getting its name from its resemblance to a pachydermal head and trunk, the rock collapsed and fell into the sea at about 2pm on Dec 16, according to the Ruifang District Office in New Taipei City.

The rock formation, which got its name from, well, its resemblance to an elephant trunk, has long been at risk due to erosion. It had been cordoned off from visitors since 2010. Shen Chuan-chou, a ...