Astrophotographer Terry Hancock has captured a dramatic view of the star-forming region IC 1396 — also known as the ...

An amateur astrophotographer has brought to light a breathtaking view of a distant stellar nursery. Using custom-built gear ...

Elephant Trunk Nebula with twisting columns and glowing filaments was captured by Terry Hancock, offering a spectacular ...

Zaiya, the successful product or breeding between two of their elephants, is the first baby born at Blackpool Zoo, and she ...

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 PBS App ...

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 ...

This elephant’s behavior is adorable, and it’s also very typical. Baby elephants are known to suck on their trunks for a variety of reasons. The most common reason is comfort while they learn to use ...

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 ...

On November 6, 2025, in Vienna, Austria, Schönbrunn Zoo introduced its two-and-a-half-month-old elephant calf, now fully ...

(via PBS Eons) 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, ...