An elephant’s trunk serves a lot of important purposes: eating, drinking, and communication are some of the most common uses for trunks. However, trunks are thought to have adapted in response ...

If you’ve ever watched an elephant eat and drink, you may think it’s a simple process. The largest land mammals in the world use their long trunks to pick up food — about 400 pounds a day ...

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. Its got the moves ...

First, the African forest elephant, a third species, wasn’t included in the analysis. She says those animals would have provided another point of reference for the development and use of the trunk.