One of Africa’s last remaining “Super Tuskers” has passed away. Officials from the Amboseli National Park reported that Craig ...

Many key differences separate African elephant from Asian elephants. Not only are they found in completely separate parts of the world, but they live in different habitats as well. The African ...

Kenya mourned legendary Amboseli elephant Craig after his peaceful death, as KWS removed his iconic tusks to protect his ...

A documentary focuses on the remarkable reproductive lives of the rare male elephants whose tusks weigh more than 100 pounds ...

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Tusks are one of the most notable features of elephants, among their size and trunks. However, some elephants do not have tusks, and a high proportion of these elephants are females. Why do some ...

In countries such as South Sudan, the great herds have all but disappeared. But further south, conservation success mean increasing human-wildlife conflict ...

Officials in Nigeria gathered to watch more than $11 million in contraband be turned into dust, but it wasn’t drugs or weapons going into an incinerator. It was two-and-a-half tons of elephant tusks ...