Picture the Asian elephant without its elegant tusks. Ecological scientists filming the pachyderms for months together at the Kaziranga National Park in the north-east Indian state of Assam say ...

News of another senseless slaughter of 4 young elephant without tusks, alongside their two adult “minders” shocked the conservation fraternity over the weekend. News of another senseless ...

Many elephants at the Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, Africa, are lacking one distinguishable feature that elephants usually have: tusks. Researchers believe the heavy presence of poaching ...

Female elephants without any tusks became much more common after intense poaching slashed the elephant population of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique by 90 percent.

African elephants are being born without tusks due to poaching, researchers say. The species could become extinct in some areas, with those elephants that do survive evolving to be almost ...

Poaching has also pushed tusk sizes down in some heavily hunted areas, such as southern Kenya. A 2015 study conducted by Duke University and the Kenya Wildlife Service compared the tusks of ...

In Addo Elephant National Park in South Africa, poaching pressure has resulted in an astounding 98 per cent of the 174 female elephants being born without tusks.

While an elephant’s tusks are among its defining features and tools for living, But an increasing proportion of female elephants in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park have been born without ...

Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory. Elephant ivory is often passed off as mammoth ivory when being imported. As the ...

Here's why elephants without tusks are in danger. The illegal trade in Asian elephant skins—for jewelry and traditional medicine—has expanded across Southeast Asia.

But, both species of elephant are experiencing increased instances of members without tusks. As poachers kill off elephants with the most prominent trunks, they’re taking them out of the ...