A joint team of law enforcement officers drawn from Mbeere South-based detectives and Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) officers ...

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 ...

Better yet, it actually resembles an elephant with its tusks and ears creating the mounting points. That’s adorable, made even more so by the mount’s tiny $7.99 / €7.49 price tag ...

AN ageing elephant with giant tusks each weighing 100lb covers itself ... where Craig roams freely in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro. He said: “I travelled here specifically to photograph ...

A fossilised tusk from a giant prehistoric elephant that once roamed around the Mediterranean has emerged from an excavation site in Revadim JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A fossilized tusk from a giant ...

A team of researchers turned to elephant and mammoth tusks to see if their layers might also preserve the presence of steroid hormones like cortisol, said lead study author Michael Cherney ...

And 32 percent of the female elephants born since the war are tuskless. A male elephant’s tusks are bigger and heavier than those of a female of the same age, says Poole, who serves as ...

Thirty large mammal specialists traveled from South Africa, India and other zoos across America last week to perform the last phase of tusk removal surgery for Ali, a 34-year-old elephant at the ...

During musth, a male elephant's testosterone can soar to up to 60 times its natural levels. "Tusks hold particular promise for reconstructing aspects of mammoth life history because they preserve ...