Elephant tusks are both a valuable tool and a potential liability for these gentle giants. The desire for ivory has made elephants popular targets for illegal poaching, and it can have a ...

Remains of five mammoths were found archaeologists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences said Thursday​ in a news statement.

With a single tusk that made him stand out, the majestic bull elephant Unicorn was a true king among the wild herds of ...

Poachers kill elephants for their ivory tusks. Hippo teeth are made of the same material but are easier to obtain and are also legal. Sadly, hippos’ teeth are replacing elephant tusks in the ...

The whales, which have distinctively long tusks, were filmed in the Arctic chasing a fish in what seemed like a ...

Every year, thousands of elephants in Africa are butchered for their highly-prized tusks to fuel a lucrative global trade and black market demand. The tusks are exported and smuggled into Asia ...

The data showed that some of these watering holes had experienced blooms of algae containing deadly toxins. An analysis of ...

Misha lived her whole life in zoos, but this elephant's teeth are now helping scientists reconstruct wildlife migrations. Geologists show how strontium isotopes found in teeth or tusks reveal where ...