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

The tusks of an African elephant are gently curved and can grow to nearly 11.5 feet long. They are used to dig, lift, pull ...

Ancient hunters killed woolly mammoths for their meat. Today in Russia’s Arctic the search is on for their valuable tusks. 15 min read This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National ...

The trunk of an elephant derives from a fusion of their nose and upper lip. Elephant biologists believe that elephants’ trunks adapted in response to the development of their tusks. Although ...

The elephant’s trunk is one magnificent multi-tool ... Both males and females use their ivory tusks to dig for food whilst foraging for a diet of grasses, roots, fruit and bark, males however ...

Narwhal tusks are the stuff of legends, literally. Growing up to ten feet long, they were once believed by some medieval cultures to be the horns of mythical creatures like the unicorn — not to ...