Tusks that are discovered with the mammoth’s skull still attached, like this one, are not considered more valuable, notes photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva. She spent two months on the island to ...

Officials said the skull’s tusks are approximately 12 feet long and the animal itself weighing 3,000 pounds in life. Museum ambassador, Noah O’Bright, the skull is rare because of its unique ...

Screengrab from Florida Atlantic University, YouTube Humans have long been fascinated with narwhal tusks. During the Middle Ages, the long, spiraled teeth — mistaken for unicorn horns — were ...

With their long, spiral tusks, narwhals (Monodon monoceros) look like something out of a fairy tale. Primarily seen in male narwhals, these single elongated teeth that can grow up to 10 feet.

The tusks are about 2.5m long and the skull, including the tusks, is around 4m long. Woolly mammoth tusks were primarily used for fighting and each tusk is so heavy it takes two strong people to lift.

Many adult males wear duelling scars from these encounters and some animals have been found with tusk tips lodged in their skull. Recent drone footage has shed some light on the feeding practices of ...