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

Poachers kill elephants for their ivory tusks. Hippo teeth are made of the same material but are easier to obtain and are also legal. Sadly, hippos’ teeth are replacing elephant tusks in the ivory ...

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 start off with miniature tusks that they usually lose ...

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.

Though Tula-Tu was the smallest of Rose’s calves at birth, she is healthy, thriving and, as keeper Steve Lefave said, as he watched her and her mother in Forest Hall, “She came out particularly cute.” ...

The elephant won the first March Mammal Madness in 2013 ... Swapping out slam dunks for survival instincts and buzzer beaters for claws and teeth, March Mammal Madness is a wildly (see what I did ...

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.

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.

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

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