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 ...

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 ...

Back in 2016, a scientist from Germany's University of Bonn discovered how the African elephantnose fish can switch between its visual and electrical sensory systems. Now, a team led by that same ...

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 ...