Some plant-eating dinosaurs grew new teeth every couple of months, with some of the largest herbivores developing a replacement tooth every 35 days, to keep their chompers from getting too worn down ...

A new study shows that the cheek teeth of proboscideans (elephants and their ancient relatives) evolved in response to dietary changes due to vegetation changes and climate change in East Africa ...

How can we ever know what ancient animals ate? For the first time, the changing diets of elephants in the last two million years in China have been reconstructed, using a technique based on analysis ...

Smile big, hippos. Your pearly whites are helping scientists monitor the health of Africa’s elephants. A recent study revealed that the teeth of decades-old hippo skeletons hold information about ...

Elephant experts are defending the animals’ reputation after it was reported that a pachyderm bit and broke a woman’s arm at a Bali animal park that has been visited by Kim Kardashian, Julia Roberts ...

A new study examined the feeding habits of ancient elephant relatives that inhabited Central Asia some 17 million years ago. A new study, led by scientists at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology ...

"Elephant ear" is a common name for several plant genuses within the Araceae family, including Colocasia, Alocasia, and Xanthosoma. If you're a plant lover, you may have been drawn in by elephant ears ...

An exotic plant and staple at the Virginia Zoo is expected to bloom this weekend, just in time for the first day of autumn. Zoo officials describe the plant, Argyreia nervosa, commonly referred to as ...