An elephant's tusks are among its defining features -- they help the animal lift heavy branches, topple trees, strip bark, fight, and dig holes for water and minerals.

Tusks are one of the most notable features of elephants, among their size and trunks. However, some elephants do not have tusks, and a high proportion of these elephants are females.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks. The research was ...

Tuskless elephants drink from a watering hole at Addo Elephant National Park in Addo, South Africa, June 5, 2018. The park has few females with tusks, a trait that has died off because of hunting ...

Elephants can still be incredibly lethal creatures, and it’s far easier to simply kill an elephant and then take their tusks. Even if it were a painless procedure, many elephants rely on their ...

"Baby elephants are born with a dental structure known as a ‘tush.’ While similar in composition to tusks, tushes are much smaller, reaching a maximum length of 5 cm (about 2 inches).

Elephant tusks valued at Sh5.1 million nabbed in Salawa area on January 31, 2021. [File, Standard] Two men have been charged for dealing with wildlife trophies valued at Sh6 million.

Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory. ...

Keonjhar: Carcass of a sub-adult elephant was found in Saleikena reserve forest in Keonjhar district's Telkoi range on Monday ...

An elephant has attacked a couple in India, as a husband held their young son in his arms. The victims, Satya Dehuri, his wife Rashmita Dehuri, and their son Dinabandhu, had been walking to watch ...

Conradie, a well-known figure in South African eco-tourism, was trying to move the elephants out of a populated area when the deadly encounter occurred.