OMAHA — Doctors at the Nebraska Medical Center have used an evolving surgical technique to replace heart tissue and save an Omaha man suffering from a life-threatening aneurysm, officials there said ...

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 ...

The elephant proboscis (trunk) exhibits an extraordinary kinematic versatility as it can manipulate a single blade of grass but also carry loads up to 270 kilograms. Using motion-capture technologies ...

A new study from Georgia Institute of Technology 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 ...

The folds on an elephant’s facial appendage aren’t just for show. By Richard Sima The elephant has a secret hiding right on its nose. Its famous trunk, full of muscle and devoid of bone, can move in a ...

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 ...