A young bull elephant in South Africa appears to have invented a game in which he uses his trunk to fling rocks at safari ...

What suddenly made long jaws such a liability? Well it looks like we can thank a changing climate for the evolution of the elephant’s trunk. Eons is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App ...

Why is the elephant trunk so wrinkly? It sounds like the start of one of Aesop’s fables. But in a new study in the journal Royal Society Open Science, researchers offer up some answers. This all ...

A tourist safari turned terrifying when a dugout canoe strayed too close to elephant calves, prompting a bull to charge and ...

(via PBS Eons) Long-jawed proboscideans were doing pretty well for themselves. That is, until they were all rapidly replaced with proboscideans with long, flexible trunks instead: mammoths, mastodons, ...