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 ...

In Gorongosa in the 1970s, 18.5% of female elephants didn't have tusks. Now that number is 51%. Analysis from the study revealed that tuskless elephants are five times more likely to survive.

ADDO, South Africa — Through the narrow slit of the underground hide in front of the water hole, an African morning revealed itself. The sun painted the earth orange. A lion stepped out of the ...

A fractured tusk sparked an international collaboration that brought life-saving surgery, veterinary innovation and ...

Today, half of the female African elephants are born with no tusks at all, and that trend is happening in males as well. It’s a recent, rapid, ...

Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory. ...

Discover how the University of Pretoria's veterinary team achieved a groundbreaking tusk extraction on a Cambodian elephant, ...

A new forensic test could help identify poached elephant ivory being disguised and smuggled as legal mammoth tusks.

The article explains that a baby's tusks start to grow around 2 years of age. "Once the adult tusks emerge, they continue to grow throughout the elephant’s lifetime, at an astounding rate of 7 ...

In most African elephant populations, as few as 2 percent of the cows lack tusks. But among Addo’s 300-odd females, the rate is 90 percent to 95 percent, a trait that has evolved rapidly over ...

Chemically, there’s no difference between a tooth and a tusk, but ivory continues to be a major business — and one that’s driving an illicit elephant poaching trade.