In the middle of fast-scrolling feeds and constant headlines, a quiet moment of kindness is winning hearts online. A short video showing a baby elephant gently hugging two humans has gone viral– not ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Katherine Kuchenbecker (left) and Andrew Schulz (right) with a 3D-printed replica of an elephant's trunk hair, which helped the ...

A new study suggests that an elephant's muscles aren't the only way it stretches its trunk -- its folded skin also plays an important role. The combination of muscle and skin gives the animal the ...

Elephant trunks may be one of the most sensitive body parts in the animal kingdom. Michael Brecht at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin and his colleagues dissected the ...

Functional gradients give elephant whiskers physical intelligence. Unlike rat whiskers, elephant whiskers lack the follicle muscles necessary for local actuation, which we hypothesized would promote ...