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.

Elephants are among the largest mammals on Earth. They are loved by many for their intelligence and varied personalities. They are easily recognized by their large bodies, huge fan-like ears, and long ...

Moki, the African elephant at the Seneca Park Zoo, celebrated her 43rd birthday on Tuesday.Weighing 8,900 pounds, Moki is the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A well-preserved 500,000-year-old 2.5-meter-long elephant tusk has been discovered by archeologists and paleontologists near a kibbutz in the south of Israel. It took experts from the Israel ...

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 ...

Archaeologists, paleontologists and conservators work Wednesday at the site where a 2.5-meter-long tusk from an ancient straight-tusked elephant was discovered, near Kibbutz Revadim in southern ...