Elephants' wrinkly trunks might serve a purpose and reveal whether the individual prefers to bend the handy appendage to the right or the left. Byrdyak via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Until ...

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, thanks to 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 ...

Elephants are pretty amazing, aren’t they? Aside from their famously impressive memory, the highly social animals can also communicate using a pitch we humans can’t hear. The world’s largest land ...

Well, experts have found a way to work out if elephants are left or right 'trunked' by looking at the wrinkles in their skin. Elephants use their big trunks to help them with everyday tasks, like ...

(CNN) — Elephants' wrinkles aren't just about age. In fact, the observation that baby elephants don't have wrinkles in their skin led researchers to wonder why and how these form. What they discovered ...

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