Well, an interesting optical illusion illustration of a circus ... while the sleeve forms one of the elephant's ears. So what about the tusk? Well, that's where the sword comes in.

Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / Full ... Palaeoloxodon is often called the “straight-tusked elephant,” as its tusks don’t curve as much as those of other fossil elephants.

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 ...

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 ...