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.

In most African elephant populations, as few as 2 percent of the cows lack tusks. But among Addo’s 300-odd females, the rate is 90 percent to 95 percent, a trait that has evolved rapidly over ...

While an elephant’s tusks are among its defining features and tools for living, But an increasing proportion of female elephants in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park have been born without ...

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.

The elephant has tusks that grow backward, a wildlife official said. — -- A team of wildlife experts spotted a rare pygmy elephant with "saber-tooth"-like tusks in the Malaysian state of ...

"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).

In Gorongosa in the 1970s, 18.5% of female elephants didn't have tusks. Now that number is 51%. Analysis from the study revealed that tuskless elephants are five times more likely to survive.

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 ...

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 ...

In Gorongosa in the 1970s, 18.5% of female elephants didn’t have tusks, while three decades later 51% did.

In most African elephant populations, as few as 2 percent of the cows lack tusks. But among Addo’s 300-odd females, the rate is 90 percent to 95 percent, a trait that has evolved rapidly over ...