Misha lived her whole life in zoos, but this elephant's teeth are now helping scientists reconstruct wildlife migrations. Geologists show how strontium isotopes found in teeth or tusks reveal where ...

Misha was euthanized in 2008 due to declining health. At that time, and with an eye toward advancing isotope research, University of Utah distinguished professor Thure Cerling asked if his team could ...

Teeth recovered from a beloved zoo elephant that died in 2008 are helping University of Utah geologists develop a method for tracking the movements of ...

The third felt the animal’s pointed tusk and claimed that it’s “a sharp spear ... When they began to noisily argue, a wise man counseled them that “(t)he elephant is a very large animal. Each man ...

“It is a wild animal, it likes to live ... In one, an elephant at a festival was spooked by fireworks, jabbed its companion with a tusk and triggered a stampede that killed three people and ...

One elephant managed to escape, but the other, a tusker, got its left tusk stuck on the lorry. Fortunately, the collision wasn’t head-on, so the tusker ran toward a small forest patch on the other ...

Teeth recovered from a beloved zoo elephant that died in 2008 are helping University of Utah geologists develop a method for ...

“Ultimately it comes down to where that element comes from, how the animal gets it into their ... to get permission to extract the elephant’s molars and a tusk before she could be buried.