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

Although elephant tusks appear large today, the tusks of their ancestors were dramatically larger. Due to the large size of the tusks, and the fact that they were longer than the elephant’s head ...

Elephant tusks are both a valuable tool and a potential ... China in particular has been one of the largest consumers of ivory. While the sale of ivory products was banned in 2017, the rising ...

breaking one of his tusks from the base following a bizarre collision with a lorry. Kavantissa, a regal tusker considered Sri Lanka’s largest elephant, stands more than 3 meters (10 feet ...

(Several had large black x’s ... Wasser and his team measured and weighed the elephant tusks, which had been hidden in tea leaves in two cargo containers. Kate Brooks Wasser estimated the ...

Though rare for a tiger to attack a fully grown elephant, young elephants could be in danger of tiger attacks when they stray from their herd. In the Jim Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand, India, ...

Is Sri Lanka becoming a transit point for illegal trade in wildlife? Last week, Sri Lanka Customs uncovered a consignment of 359 African elephant tusks concealed in a container on a ship sailing from ...

Police in Kitengela are holding two suspects found in possession of five elephant trophies. The two were arrested at a hotel as they prepare to hand over the consignment to the buyer. According to ...