Researchers worked over two days to create a protective cast around the tusk for transport. After covering the fossil in plaster-soaked burlap strips, Schroeder’s group then constructed a frame around ...

Not so long ago, the trumpeting of elephants could be heard across a great deal of our planet. Wrinkly-skinned giants did not ...

The tusk, which was the only skeletal remain found in the creek bed, once belonged to a mammoth - an extinct species from the elephant family that lived between 4,000 and 6.2 million years ago ...

Though rare for a tiger to attack a fully grown elephant, young elephants could be in danger of tiger attacks when they stray from their herd. In the Jim Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand, India, ...

Among Asian elephants, only a fraction of males bear tusks, and Sri Lanka holds the lowest percentage, with just 7% of its total elephant population being tuskers. Tuskers are culturally ...

A man has been charged in Nakuru Court for illegal dealing in and possessing an elephant tusk weighing 47.3 kilograms with an ...