The Rosette Nebula blossoms ... re sometimes referred to as "elephant trunks" because of their long, droopy appearance. One of the trunks, nicknamed the "Wrench Trunk," appears to spiral as ...

One of these features, called the Wrench Trunk, twists through the nebula, shaped by its internal magnetic fields. In addition to the elephant trunks, the nebula contains Bok globules—small ...

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 ...

Scientists had assumed that elephant trunk skin largely stretches the same way all over. When Schulz sent data from Kelly and a male elephant, Msholo, to colleagues, they said, “Oh yeah ...

The thick, immobile whiskers on an elephant’s trunk may help it to feel and balance objects even though they cannot twitch in the way that many other mammals’ whiskers do, a study suggests.

The trunk of an elephant is among the versatile appendages in the animal kingdom. Now a research team has shown that most of its dexterity can be reproduced with a model using just three "muscles." ...

An elephant named "Shanmai," rolled the shoe up with its trunk, rubbed off the mud on it, and held up its trunk over the fence edge to return the shoe to the child who accidentally dropped a shoe ...

According to a recent study, an elephant’s folded skin plays a significant part in stretching its trunk besides its muscles. The findings could improve robotics, which today are typically built ...