If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

TAWAU: An Indonesian couple was detained at their house in an oil palm plantation for illegal possession of four elephant tusks. The tusks, weighing 2.5kg, were hidden in a closet in one of the ...

Police and Kenya Wildlife Service officials said the tusks were valued at Sh6 million. This followed a joint security operation in the Kigene area of Nkubu Township. The accused denied the charges ...

About 150,000 individual muscle cells make up an elephant’s trunk. The trunks of Asian elephants are highly sensitive and play a crucial role in their daily activities. Tusks first appear in elephants ...

The beast’s skull was strange, too, having a long and low profile but bearing enlarged, tusk-like incisor teeth in both jaws. Moeritherium was not an ancestor to modern elephants. The creature ...

In a sumptuous showroom in Tsim Sha Tsui, flocks of mainland tourists marvel at an immaculately white elephant tusk with a steep price tag. It is a traditional sign of wealth and status in their ...

The Asian elephant is the largest surviving land mammal in Asia. Although significantly smaller than its African cousin, it is still an awesome beast. An adult bull can weigh well over five tonnes. It ...

An elephant’s trunk can lift over 600 pounds in weight, making it a powerful tool for survival in the wild. Another important feature of the African elephant is its tusks, which are elongated incisor ...

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