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.

Eleazar was a brother of Judas Maccabee who, during the Maccabean Revolt around 165 B.C., is said to have killed an enemy war elephant in battle by sliding underneath and stabbing it with his ...

Wrinkles can even reveal whether an individual elephant prefers to bend its trunk to the right or the left, according to the new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science on Wednesday.

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.

What suddenly made long jaws such a liability? Well it looks like we can thank a changing climate for the evolution of the elephant’s trunk. Eons is available to stream on pbs.org and the free ...

Georgia Institute of Technology. "How an elephant's trunk manipulates air to eat and drink." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 2 June 2021. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 06 / 210601194151.htm>.

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.