The elephant's trunk has long been studied by engineers seeking to understand how it performs both powerful and delicate ...

An elephant’s trunk can haul a felled log across a clearing and, moments later, ...

A new study shows how elephant trunk skin balances strength and sensitivity, offering clues that could help engineers build ...

An elephant's trunk is both strong and capable of extremely fine motor movements. With this muscular, boneless structure, an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Looks like someone is growing up! A video of baby elephant learning how to use her trunk is the absolute cutest. She’s just ...

A new study from an interdisciplinary German research collaboration, led by the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), reveals the secret to the ...

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 ...

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, thanks to a ...