On average, the trunk of an African elephant can reach up to 7 feet. Asian elephant’s trunks can reach lengths of up to 6 feet. Elephants can lift 4.5% of their weight using their trunk.

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 ...

Elephants appear to have evolved their long, grasping trunks as a result of climate change pressures on their ancestors millions of years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

We also wanted to explore the role of the trunk in these animals’ feeding behaviours, and the environmental background for the co-evolution of their mandibles and trunks.” “Our cross-disciplinary team ...

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 ...

flexible trunks instead: mammoths, mastodons, and our modern elephants.What suddenly made long jaws such a liability? Well it looks like we can thank a changing climate for the evolution of the ...