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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...