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 ...

Feces, dung, poop: words that never fail to make a 12-year-old boy laugh. But they have no place in highly advanced scientific processes, right? Well, that’s where you’d be wrong. Researchers ...

New research finds that elephants dilate their nostrils in order to create more space in their trunks, allowing them to store up to nine liters of water. They can also suck up three liters per second ...

A baby elephant too short to drink milk from its mom is melting hearts online, after being lifted onto a stool by zookeepers. In the cute clip shared to TikTok by @yexianggu, a newborn Asian elephant ...

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 ...