Researchers worked over two days to create a protective cast around the tusk for transport. After covering the fossil in ...

DHARMAPURI: A third suspect was arrested by the special investigation team on Tuesday in connection with the poaching of an ...

Can An Elephant Survive Having Its Tusks Removed? Humans may be able to survive having a tooth pulled, but the situation is more serious for elephant tusks. Since the tusk is deeply implanted in ...

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 ...

Misha lived her whole life in zoos, but this elephant’s teeth are now helping scientists reconstruct wildlife migrations.

A carcass of a Makna elephant (male elephant without tusks) was found in the jungles of Bagdogra in the Kurseong division of Darjeeling, an official said on Sunday. According to Rahul Deb ...

Forest personnel have arrested five persons with three elephant tusks even as they were trying to sell them. Following an alert from revenue officials, the forest personnel intercepted a gang in ...

Elephants use their tusks to dig, root for food, and defend themselves. Elephant tusks are actually specialized, elongated teeth, and they keep growing for an elephant's entire life. Just like ...

He reached out to Hogle Zoo to get permission to extract the elephant's molars and a tusk before she could be buried. What made the teeth so useful to Cerling and his colleagues was the veterinary ...