Well, it looks like we can thank a changing climate for the evolution of the elephant’s trunk. Proboscideans first started popping up in Africa during the early Eocene, around 55 million ...

following the outline of a forest she herself had grown up exploring, when she saw something that fascinated her: The elephant had wound its trunk around the arm of the man (Bomman) walking with ...

An elephant's trunk is composed of 17 muscles—eight on each side plus one for its nasal cavity—controlled by tens of thousands of muscle fibers commanded by up to 60,000 facial neurons.

When I read the email from the Oakland Zoo last month saying it had retired its single remaining African elephant ... learned if he extended his trunk up, he wanted you to rub it between the ...

“Watching baby elephants figure that out — it’s kind of like trying to make a noodle work,” says Reid Park Zoo elephant care ... learning to use her trunk to pick up different pieces ...

flexible trunks instead: mammoths, mastodons, and our modern elephants.What suddenly made long jaws such a liability? Well it looks like we can thank a changing climate for the evolution of the ...