Prehistoric proboscideans were far stranger and more diverse than modern elephants, evolving bizarre tusks, enormous bodies, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks. The research was published ...

Field rangers in parts of Africa, who monitor elephant herds, began to notice something unusual. Some of the females in certain herds looked different. Specifically, whereas long ivory tusks normally ...