With a mix of flexibility and power, an elephant can peel a banana or pick up a tortilla chip without breaking it, though not the way human fingers would (SN: 4/21/23). The chip lift, for instance ...

Scientists created a soft robot inspired by elephants, named EleBot, using programmable foam that changes stiffness geometrically.

Elephant Turns Up Her Trunk at Treadmill Work Maggie the elephant lives in solitude at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage, where she doesn't get outside much because of the cold climate.

Schulz and his team also estimated the trunk’s capacity by measuring the internal volume of a trunk that came from a 38-year-old African elephant that had been put down because of medical issues.

But what made a trunk advantageous actually appears to have very little to do with reaching up and browsing on branches. Instead, it has a lot more to do with reaching down and yanking plants up.

Alvin Kaunda, an intern reporter for the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, was tickled by a baby elephant while filming a news segment. “I just felt the ticklish trunk but tried to keep my cool ...

After measuring how quickly the elephant could use its trunk to suck up water, the researchers calculated that elephant noses could inhale at speeds exceeding 490 feet per second, ...