EU-funded researchers have developed a soft robot that moves like an elephant’s trunk – precise enough to pick fresh fruit, yet powerful enough to help lift a patient.By Michael AllenLucia Beccai, an ...

Elephants are fascinating animals, and their trunks are even more impressive once you realize everything they can do. This long, flexible combination of nose and upper lip has over 40,000 muscles ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Looks like someone is growing up! A video of baby elephant learning how to use her trunk is the absolute cutest. She’s just ...

The 486-pound elephant calf joins sisters 9-year-old Nandi and 4-year-old Penzi, along with allomother Lungile. Although the 3-month-old is still nursing — which she’ll do for several more years — she ...