If you’ve ever watched an elephant eat and drink, you may think it’s a simple process. The largest land mammals in the world use their long trunks to pick up food — about 400 pounds a day — and move ...
In this issue of Chemistry & Biology, Lazar and colleagues report an unexpected finding about pheromone transport in the Asian elephant, an endangered species of which only a few thousand individuals ...
The video examines two extinct elephant relatives whose anatomy remains difficult to interpret. Platybelodon and Deinotherium display tusk structures unlike anything seen in living elephants.