The trunk of an elephant is among the versatile appendages in the animal kingdom. Now a research team has shown that most of its dexterity can be reproduced with a model using just three "muscles." ...

Evolution has already found solutions to lots of problems, so engineers more often borrow ideas from nature instead of ...

Looks like someone is growing up! A video of baby elephant learning how to use her trunk is the absolute cutest. She's just figuring it out! I mean, I totally get it. If you suddenly realized that you ...

Insights from elephant trunk skin lead to advanced robotic grippers, achieving a balance between protection and perception ...

A team of researchers from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) has developed a soft robotic ...

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 ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. An Asian elephant at a zoo in Germany eats her bananas in an unusual way: peeling them with her trunk, ...

A recent study investigated the musculature of the elephant and found that the trunk is a complex mesh of interwoven muscle and has an immense number of parts. The study was published on September 26, ...

There’s a Sherlock Holmes tale in here somewhere: A clever observer could check wrinkles and whiskers on an elephant trunk to catch a left-trunker pachyderm perp masquerading as a righty, thanks to a ...