it’s just a fraction of the entire tusk — most of which is buried deep in the elephant’s mouth. Unlike teeth, tusks keep growing over time. You can even approximate an elephant’s age by ...

Misha lived her whole life in zoos, but this elephant’s teeth are now helping scientists reconstruct wildlife migrations. University of Utah geologists show how strontium isotopes found in teeth or ...

COIMBATORE: Coimbatore forest range officers on Sunday arrested four people, including an IT employee, at Ramnagar near ...

Scientists used strontium isotopes in Misha the elephant’s teeth to track her movements, revealing a method to study ancient ...

Among Asian elephants, only a fraction of males bear tusks, and Sri Lanka holds the lowest percentage, with just 7% of its total elephant population being tuskers. Tuskers are culturally ...

Forest personnel have arrested five persons with three elephant tusks even as they were trying to sell them. Following an alert from revenue officials, the forest personnel intercepted a gang in ...

He reached out to Hogle Zoo to get permission to extract the elephant's molars and a tusk before she could be buried. What made the teeth so useful to Cerling and his colleagues was the veterinary ...