A cheeky elephant has been caught trying to steal food at a campsite. The footage, taken by Willem Bakhuys Roozeboom, 45, shows the elephant using his trunk to try and access a food van. But the ...

An Asian elephant decided to cool off at a Texas zoo by submerging himself underwater like a scuba diver with his trunk as a snorkel. Adorable video footage shows Colonel, 29, battling the scorching ...

Watch as this adorable Asian elephant cools off with an underwater nap, using his trunk as a snorkel. Colonel, 29, weighs almost five tonnes and is one of seven Asian elephants at the Fort Worth Zoo ...

A baby elephant is likely to die after being left without a trunk, despite being surrounded by his herd. The little calf was filmed in South Africa's Kruger National Park on Saturday, but its future ...

Elephants are known for their strong trunks used for smelling, breathing, drinking and grabbing things. But how do they handle small delicate food items? Well scientists have now discovered that they ...

Elephants have an amazing arsenal of face, ear and trunk movements. The trunk consists of far more muscles than the entire human body and can perform both powerful and very delicate movements. A team ...

A baby elephant has been seen walking among a herd without a trunk in a sanctuary in South Africa. The calf was filmed at Kruger National Park with its family. It is not known how the elephant came to ...

Three Asian elephants wave their trunks as they wait to be fed at Berlin Zoologischer garten zoo (JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images) Elephants’ trunks “act like suitcases” by expanding to create ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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 ...

Elephants are the largest land mammals on Earth, and understanding them better could lead to some incredibly large breakthroughs in science. Researchers backed by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 ...

Watch Peter's astounding transformation - and The Sun's video on skin cancer signs you shouldn't ignore A MAN has shared his incredible transformation after having his ‘elephant nose’ – which was ...