Now imagine that you’re a baby elephant. Grown up elephants are so big! One woman caught a weeks-old elephant crossing the ...

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 PBS App ...

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 ...

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 Pha at ...

If you look up rankings of the best Gatorade flavors, you’ll often find lemon-lime, orange, glacier freeze and cool blue among the top picks. Meru could not disagree more. Reid Park Zoo’s 545-pound ...