Find out some fun facts about elephants with Steve and Aneeshwar. You can learn why they have long trunks, how they keep cool ...

New research on elephant trunks is revealing how these animals use touch to explore their surroundings. A peer-reviewed anatomy study and a newer materials-science preprint together show that whiskers ...

The new research into the grasping force of the two fingers at the tip of the elephant’s trunk will enhance robotics. Manoj Shah/GettyImages An elephant uses its trunk for eating, drinking water, ...

Elephants are the largest land animals, only outsized by giants of the sea such as whales. Their large stature makes them a sight to behold, which is one of the reasons people around the world love ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: An Asian elephant dries off with some sand in his enclosure at the zoo in Karlsruhe July 7, 2011. REUTERS/Alex ...

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 ...

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. Lucia Beccai, an expert in soft robotics at ...

Feb 13 (Reuters) - An elephant's trunk is essential for most aspects of the animal's life, from interacting with its environment and with other elephants to eating and drinking. And the roughly 1,000 ...