For touch, their trunk has over 150,000 muscle fibers in it which help to make it strong for carrying objects. Additionally, it contains finger-like projections on its tip, which allow it to easily ...

Just as each blind man only grasped a part of the elephant, many of us are prone to seeing only fragments of a larger picture ...

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, ...

Bursting to the seams with charm, Astro Bot is an inventive, nostalgia-fuelled platformer of the highest order. If 2020’s ...

At the Phoenix Zoo and Desert Botanical Garden, complex operations to keep animals and plants safe from climate change may ...

Shutterstock Soft-shelled and an unappealing shade of Mekong River brown, a Cantor's giant softshell turtle can grow up to ...

A CLIP shows how the first-of-its-kind prosthetic hand allows amputees to move by simply thinking. The prosthetic responds to the wearer’s brain’s signals, allowing them to control the ...