If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

When looking at an African elephant and an Asian elephant side-by-side, you can really tell the differences in their head ...

The tusks of an African elephant are gently curved and can grow ... Found even farther north than the walrus, the male of ...

This photo shows Raw elephant tusks from the 16th century Bom Jesus shipwreck ... The team found that the tusks came from African forest elephants, not African savanna elephants, and from West rather ...

Tragically though, for the second time in the last century, elephants in Africa are being slaughtered for their ivory tusks ... African elephants exist — forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) and ...

Police in Zanzibar have seized 1,041 elephant tusks hidden in a shipment heading for Malaysia ... its position as the primary exit point for illicit ivory leaving the African continent, with Kenya and ...

Plenty of rivers flow north, including the Nile, which gathers from high-elevation lakes in the African Rift Valley ... into the living root of the elephant’s tusk would be life-threatening.

The African elephant is ... males however also use their tusks in battle for a mate. Yet for the female finding a mate is only the beginning - an elephant cow’s pregnancy lasts up to 22 months ...