our bicep pulls on our forearm bones and that causes them to swing up around our elbow joint. But in an elephant trunk, there are no bones to pull and no joints to hinge on. The muscles take on ...

The trunk of an African elephant is a remarkable and multi functional ... detecting water sources up to 19.2 km (12 mi.) away. Nostrils are located at the tip of the trunk and function in ...

A right-trunked elephant is more likely to curl its trunk to the right to pick things up, while a left-trunked elephant would prefer to bend it the other way. In the study, the groups of elephants ...

The robot can not only bend like an elephant's trunk, but it can also get extend or shorten in length. The scientists were able to create a trunk made up of 10 individual segments, but they say ...