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

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 ...

Bulwagi’s left tusk had already cracked when the African elephant arrived at the Birmingham Zoo in 2010. This isn't unusual—elephants rely heavily on their tusks, giant modified incisors they ...

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.