Elephants have a keen nose. They have more smell receptors than any mammal – including dogs – and can sniff out food that is several miles away. A new study tests their ability to distinguish between ...

"A nose?" the elephant begins. "Well, isn't it obvious? A nose is something at the end of your face that is magnificently long, perfectly round, miraculously flexible, very sensitive, and yet ...

The elephant-nose fish Gnathonemus petersii relies on electricity to find food and navigate through the obstacles riddling its native murky African rivers. Researchers have presented evidence that the ...

Elephant-nose fish need to twist, pace and shimmy to accurately “see” the shapes of objects when interpreting wobbles in electric fields. Peters’s elephant-nose fish (Gnathonemus petersii) is native ...

Source: Courtesy of Jacob Engelmann. The African elephant-nose fish (Gnathonemus petersii) is nocturnal and lives in murky lakes and rivers. It makes its way through its environment, avoiding ...

When a group of curious elephants stumbled across a rolling GoPro camera in a field, they knew exactly what do with it: stick it up their nose. At first, the elephants seem disturbed by the GoPro's ...

The elephant-nose fish Gnathonemus petersii relies on electricity to find food and navigate through the obstacles riddling its native murky African rivers. On July 11 in the journal Neuron, Columbia ...