This is the impressive moment an elephant pulled an SUV that was stuck in a muddy riverbank. The owner of a white Toyota ...

“As the items get smaller, the elephant vacuums the items into their trunk using its large lungs. One of the primary reasons for this is, as the cubes get smaller, suction is easier.” In the ...

By Richard Sima 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 ...

Pitched as the "world's first elephant-trunk-mimetic robot hand," and combining ... while embedded micro-channels create a vacuum seal to increase the gripping force as necessary.

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 ...

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.

The thick, immobile whiskers on an elephant’s trunk may help it to feel and balance objects even though they cannot twitch in the way that many other mammals’ whiskers do, a study suggests.

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." ...