Amazing secrets of the excellent elephant trunk revealed! We may take the trunk of an elephant for granted, so accustomed are we to seeing these iconic animals with their long agile noses arching with ...

An elephant’s strength is so great that it can take down trees simply by tugging at the branches with its trunk. A video from the YouTube channel, PETER FERNANDES (GRENT WORLD), shows one determined ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: What if you could use your nose to snorkel, or uproot a small tree, or smell water from several miles away? Well, elephants wouldn't be that impressed ...

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 40,000 muscles and weighs more than a Burmese python. The appendage is strong enough to uproot a tree, yet sensitive enough to suction up fragile tortilla chips. But how does ...