The Ivory tusks are actually massive teeth (incisors) that protrude well beyond the mouths of elephants with approximately ...

A team of researchers turned to elephant and mammoth tusks to see if their layers might also preserve the presence of steroid hormones like cortisol, said lead study author Michael Cherney ...

More cruelly, people have indulged their desire for ivory trinkets that come from a dead elephant’s tusk. Although elephants ... s storytelling since 1988. Illustration by Joe McKendry Poaching ...

Baby animals share many similarities with human babies. Baby chimpanzees will cry when their needs aren't being met. All babies love to cuddle up with their moms and look to them for protection.

Thirty large mammal specialists traveled from South Africa, India and other zoos across America last week to perform the last phase of tusk removal surgery for Ali, a 34-year-old elephant at the ...

The tusk was found near a kibbutz on the central plain running parallel to Israel’s Mediterranean coast. But half a million years ago, when the ancient elephant died, the now-arid terrain was ...