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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If I could have any pet in the world, I would have an elephant. Well, several, because they like to be together, but I would have ...

You might be surprised to learn that a baby elephant doesn’t instinctively know how to use its trunk. When they are born, they lack muscle tone in their trunks, which makes them difficult to control, ...

Understanding how elephants use their trunks to pick up small objects could lead to robots designed with flexible hands or grippers, according to a new study that includes Rochester Institute of ...

Many human inventions are based on things found in nature. Velcro was inspired by the burrs a Swiss engineer found on himself and his dog, airplane wings by birds in flight. A new study of elephant ...

An elephant’s trunk looks rugged, but it is also one of the most sensitive touch organs in the animal kingdom. New research reveals that this sensitivity is partly powered by whiskers whose material ...

Elephants are super sweet creatures, with herds often led by an older female matriarch, and many female elephants help raise the calves together. These close-knit animals are social and also like to ...

Elephants use their trunks much like a human uses their hands: to pick up food and manipulate objects. A new study finds that tiny, specialized whiskers on elephant trunks help them do it. KUOW is ...