Imagine stumbling across a tiny creature darting across the African underbrush, its nose twitching and legs pumping like a ...

But in an elephant trunk, there are no bones to pull and no ... Narrator: What if you could use your nose to snorkel, or uproot a small tree, or smell water from several miles away?

If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

The learning process for an elephant using its trunk looks very similar to a baby learning to use its hands. Baby elephants touch anything from other herd members to their surroundings with trunks.

The three iconic bronze elephants that make up the fountain in the large pool in front of the Appleton Museum of Art have ...

Nandi the baby elephant started life with a spaghetti noodle of a nose, but her mom is teaching the calf that her trunk can be so much more Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...