A new forensic test could help identify poached elephant ivory being disguised and smuggled as legal mammoth tusks.

Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory. ...

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 ...

The 2.5 metre-long tusk from the ancient straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) is estimated to be around half a million years old and was found in an area where stone and flint tools ...

The Netherlands on Saturday officially handed back to Nigeria 119 precious ancient sculptures, stolen from the former kingdom of Benin more than 120 years ago during the colonial era. "The German ...

Elephant Card is a flat-folding mount for Mac owners who want to use their iPhone as a webcam with macOS Ventura’s new Continuity Camera feature. It’s a little flimsy but costs less than $10.

The article explains that a baby's tusks start to grow around 2 years of age. "Once the adult tusks emerge, they continue to grow throughout the elephant’s lifetime, at an astounding rate of 7 ...

Traces of ancient hormones were detected in the tusks of a woolly mammoth that lived more than 33,000 years ago, revealing that the now-extinct creatures had episodes of raging testosterone.

Ali, a 34-year-old African elephant who was once on Michael Jackson’s 'Neverland Ranch,' is recovering at the Jacksonville Zoo after undergoing tusk removal surgery. Skip Navigation Share on ...

Straight-tusked elephant reconstruction in the Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon, September 9, 2017. The discovery of a complete tusk of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) near ...

A fossilized tusk from a giant prehistoric elephant that once roamed around the Mediterranean has emerged from an excavation site in southern Israel, offering what archaeologists said was a rare ...