Elephant-Trunk Hill is a symbol of Guilin and became famous for looking like a giant elephant drinking water with its trunk. It is a masterpiece of karst landscape, usually composed of pure ...

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 ...

Sheldrick Wildlife Center Last week in Kenya, a 1-year-old baby elephant meandered through Tsavo East National Park with her ...

A couple months into development, the fetal trunk has about four wrinkles — at which point there’s sudden exponential growth. “Every 20 days, the number of wrinkles doubles,” he says.

A grown elephant trunk can lift up to 770 pounds and contain 40,000 muscles. Elephant trunks are stunted at birth, then rapidly elongate over the course of a few days.

Trunk muscles form what a scientist would call a muscular hydrostat, a boneless tube of muscles that easily changes shape. (A trunk has some 46,000 muscles; the human body has 600 to 700.) ...