A heartwarming video of an elephant peacefully taking a nap while gently holding her own trunk is winning hearts across the ...

A heartwarming video of an elephant is surfacing online; it is seen gently holding its trunk while napping, and it is melting ...

A baby elephant hugged two people with its trunk, leaving them laughing and the internet overwhelmed with joy.

A 1908 drawing of elephant trunk anatomy that Schulz studied. Courtesy of Georgia Institute of Technology Muscular and boneless, human tongues are similar to elephant trunks.

In addition, the Swiss team demonstrates that the elephant trunk velocity obeys a mathematical law observed in human hand drawing movements. These results are published in the journal Current Biology.

A new study suggests that an elephant's muscles aren't the only way it stretches its trunk -- its folded skin also plays an important role. The combination of muscle and skin gives the animal the ...

An elephant’s trunk has eight major muscles on either side and 150,000 muscle bundles in all. It is so strong that it can push down trees and lift a whopping 700,000 pounds.

For example, the most recent detailed account of elephant trunk anatomy is a hand-drawn monograph that was published in 1908, Mr. Schulz said.

The elephant has a secret hiding right on its nose. Its famous trunk, full of muscle and devoid of bone, can move in a virtually infinite number of directions and is capable of performing an array ...

A couple months into development, the fetal trunk has about four wrinkles — at which point there’s sudden exponential growth. “Every 20 days, the number of wrinkles doubles,” he says.