Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: An Asian elephant dries off with some sand in his enclosure at the zoo in Karlsruhe July 7, 2011. REUTERS/Alex ...

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. This all ...

The list of feats Andrew Schulz has witnessed an elephant perform with its trunk is as long as, well, an elephant’s trunk. These powerful proboscises are strong enough to push over 900 pound trees and ...

If you think whiskers are just for cats and cartoon villains, think again. Elephants have about 1,000 of them, and they are all clustered on one of the most versatile body parts in the animal kingdom ...

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 ...