When looking at an African elephant and an Asian elephant side-by-side, you can really tell the differences in their head shapes and tasks. African elephants generally have much larger tusks than ...

Picture the Asian elephant without its elegant tusks. Ecological scientists filming the pachyderms for months together at the Kaziranga National Park in the north-east Indian state of Assam say ...

It is estimated that 415,000 wild African elephants are alive today. Asian elephants are on the decline too, with an estimate of only 30,000 left in 2017. They are still being poached in some ...

(Among Asian Elephants, only males can grow tusks, and very few of them actually develop them.) Elephants targeted for the skin trade are killed with poisoned arrows and die a slow, painful death.

In African elephants both males and females have tusks, while in Asian elephants only the males do. ... male elephant tusks are often five to seven times as large as those of adult females.

Billy, a 7-year-old Asian elephant who came to the Denver Zoo in 2013, is considered a kid at heart who loves digging in the dirt with his tusks, eating melons, tossing logs around and swimming.

Habitats for Asian elephants have decreased by more than 64% across the continent, equating to about 3.3 million square kilometers -- more than 850 million acres -- since the year 1700, according ...