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 ...

Elephants use their tusks to help them eat and for defense. Gomphotheres had the same two upper tusks. They also had two lower tusks that extended upwards. Their jaws were similar to modern elephants.

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 ...

African safari and wildlife expert Rob the Ranger highlights an impressive elephant with strikingly large tusks roaming the savannah.

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

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.

"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).

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 ...

His tusks were so long, they grew all the way down to the ground, and it’s very rare for elephants to get to that size. His nature was very calm, very relaxed and very patient and wise.

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 ...

Once the researchers identified hormones in male elephant tusks, they could compare them to hormonal signatures, if any existed, in extinct proboscideans.

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