An Asian elephant has gone viral after pictures of it using its trunk as a snorkel popped up. Colonel, one of seven Asian elephants at the Forth Worth Zoo in Texas, was spotted using its trunk to ...

An adorable 19-week-old elephant calf at an Ohio zoo is continuing to learn how to use his trunk.Frankie, the Asian elephant calf at the Columbus Zoo, is learning to use his trunk to drink water, pick ...

Elephant trunks are some of the most impressive noses in the animal kingdom. Trunks are organs called muscular hydrostats and they contain around 40,000 muscles that contract and expand to create ...

The elephant proboscis (trunk) exhibits an extraordinary kinematic versatility as it can manipulate a single blade of grass but also carry loads up to 270 kilograms. Using motion-capture technologies ...

Watch as this adorable Asian elephant cools off with an underwater nap, using his trunk as a snorkel. Colonel, 29, weighs almost five tonnes and is one of seven Asian elephants at the Fort Worth Zoo ...

This elephant’s behavior is adorable, and it’s also very typical. Baby elephants are known to suck on their trunks for a variety of reasons. The most common reason is comfort while they learn to use ...

One of the most recognizable features of an elephant is its trunk – the long appendage that extends out from the animal’s face. Elephants use it for a variety of activities, including drinking, eating ...

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 ...

Tuesday is World Elephant Day. Here are five things to know about the largest land animals on our planet. A multidisciplinary team of scientists has conducted a study of Asian and African elephant ...