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

A new study revealed significant differences in the appearance and behavior of the two one-horned Asiatic rhinoceros species, ...

African elephant tusks nearly double those of the walrus. An adult male’s tusk, which in the elephant’s case are enlarged incisors, can be about 7.7 feet long. Like the baby teeth of humans, elephants ...

Elephants are massive, 12-foot-tall herbivores, while bears are smaller, 5-foot-tall carnivores. They differ in diet, behavior, and size, despite overlapping habitats.

Do elephants and hippos get along? Watch what happens when a herd of elephants encounters a sleeping group of hippos.

Examining Jumbo’s massive skull, paleopathologist and team member, Richard Thomas, discovered the devastating results of Jumbo’s soft diet in captivity: the elephant’s teeth did not wear down.

Sadly, hippos’ teeth are replacing elephant tusks in the ivory trade and are both legally and illegally traded.

What has the body of a dog, the face of a cat and jaws powerful enough to potentially crush the bones of an elephant ... noticed a large set of teeth sticking out of the ground.

Forest personnel arrest five individuals attempting to sell three elephant tusks, seizing additional teeth, and remanding them in custody.

Pups at the Piedras Blancas rookery in San Luis Obispo County are shedding their neonatal coats. The weaner on the left has ...