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 ...

Elephants use their trunks for a long list of reasons: eating, drinking, smelling, socializing. But trunks have about 40,000 individual muscles — and babies have to learn to use them. “Watching baby ...

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 ...