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 ...

The idea of a gigantic elephant with 8ft (2.5 metre) long tusks may sound like the stuff of science fiction. But such a creature actually roamed Israel 500,000 years ago, according to a new study.

During musth, a male elephant's testosterone can soar to up to 60 times its natural levels. "Tusks hold particular promise for reconstructing aspects of mammoth life history because they preserve ...

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 ...