If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be Stegotetrabelodon. The hefty elephants, reaching more than 13 feet at the ...

Elephants are creatures of habit, and they typically don’t show up here at the Mushara waterhole in Namibia’s Etosha National ...

Franko Khoury/ National Museum of African Art, SI Bearers hoisting elephant tusks. Photograph by Robert Visser c. 1890-1900, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives. National Museum of African Art ...

More than 100,000 African elephants were killed for their tusks during a three-year period, reflecting persistent demand for illegal ivory that threatens the pachyderms' long-term survival, a ...

The activity is also often an important source of revenue for African governments that may be devoted to conservation projects. A policeman stands on seized elephant tusks at Makupa police station ...

All babies love to cuddle up with their moms and look to them for protection. And when baby elephants' tusks begin to grow, they try to soothe them, much like a human infant when they begin to teethe.

shows the action unfold: Five African elephants are basking ... are close together,” she said. When bunched, elephants often have their tusks pointed out, ears extended, eyes open wide and ...

An African elephant named Tendaji underwent a pulpotomy, or dental soft tissue surgery, earlier this year to treat his fractured tusk.The Dallas Zoo shared footage of the procedure in an X post on ...