Due to this fascination, elephants can be found everywhere in popular media, children’s books, and of course, zoos! Another reason they are so beloved is due to their extremely unique and exaggerated ...

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 ...

How The Elephant Got Its Trunk. Season 7 Episode 4 | 11m 53s Video has Closed Captions ... which kept the length in the lower jaw but dropped the lower tusks, making it much more elephant-ish looking.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Researchers have provided new insights into how ancestral elephants developed their dextrous trunks. The study, published today as an eLife Reviewed Preprint, combines multiple analyses to reconstruct ...

Poachers are using a sneaky loophole to bypass the international ivory trade ban—by passing off illegal elephant ivory as legal mammoth ivory. Since the two types look deceptively similar, law ...

Crossed Tusks Of Kerala Elephant Sawed-Off. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, (IANS) ... He complied without any fuss, as it knew that once sawed off, it will be able to freely use its trunk.

An elephant has attacked a couple in India, as a husband held their young son in his arms. The victims, Satya Dehuri, his wife Rashmita Dehuri, and their son Dinabandhu, had been walking to watch ...

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 ...