Gomphotheres that lived in the grasslands ate more grass, while their counterparts in the marsh ate marsh plants. Their teeth ...

Incredibly, these herbivorous gentle giants typically graze for up to 18 hours a day, using their powerful trunks and tusks to retrieve and eat hundreds of pounds of various types of grass ...

Now, an incredibly sweet video of a baby elephant learning how to eat grass from two adult elephants has captured the attention of netizens, melting hearts on the internet. A viral video showed a ...

Elephant tusks are actually enlarged incisor teeth which first appear ... They keep their skin clean and protect themselves from sunburn by taking regular dust and mud baths. Elephants eat grasses, ...

They may use one tusk more than the other for tasks like stripping bark from trees, digging in the ground or knocking dirt off of grass before eating it ... and whether it was the elephant’s left or ...

A team of researchers turned to elephant and mammoth tusks to see if their layers might also preserve the presence of steroid hormones like cortisol, said lead study author Michael Cherney ...