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 performing an array ...

I'm Madeleine Brand. Coming up, fans of Ghana's soccer team bring their World Cup fever to southern California. But first, at the Alaska Zoo, Maggie the elephant isn't really that into sports.

For example, the most recent detailed account of elephant trunk anatomy is a hand-drawn monograph that was published in 1908, Mr. Schulz said. Contrary to popular belief, the trunk does not act ...

What suddenly made long jaws such a liability? Well it looks like we can thank a changing climate for the evolution of the elephant’s trunk. Eons is available to stream on pbs.org and the free ...

An elephant at a German zoo likes to peel her banana with her trunk — a trick so unusual that she's become the subject of a scientific study.You could say researchers "went bananas" over Pang ...

But the determined elephant didn’t give up. Cheered on by a crowd, it eventually wrapped its trunk around the gazelle’s horn and pulled it to safety!

Wrinkles can even reveal whether an individual elephant prefers to bend its trunk to the right or the left, according to the new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science on Wednesday.

An elephant’s trunk has eight major muscles on either side and 150,000 muscle bundles in all. It is so strong that it can push down trees and lift a whopping 700,000 pounds.

In fact, an elephant's nose is so good it can actually sniff out bombs. People have reported that African elephants avoid land mines in Angola and in 2015, researchers put it to the test.