And bringing it back to the shovel-tuskers, Platybelodon not only had a sharp edge on their lower tusks, they also had a trunk that could coil and grasp. This made them well-adapted for ...

Nowadays, elephants have much less pronounced tusks depending on the species. Nevertheless, their spectacular trunks remain!

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 ...

a baby elephant finds comfort as its tiny tusks begin to grow. It may gently rub them against tree trunks or even suck on its own trunk to ease the discomfort. It’s an adorable and touching ...

The study, published today as an eLife Reviewed Preprint, combines multiple analyses to reconstruct feeding behaviours in the extinct longirostrine elephantiforms– elephant-like mammals characterised ...

An African elephant’s trunk is very different from an Asian elephant ... as they live in more tropical and wet climates. The post Size, Tusks, and Ears: How African and Asian Elephants Differ ...

G, Detailed 3D reconstruction of Platybelodon feeding by grasping the grass-blades using their flexible trunk and cutting the grass blades using the distal edge of their mandibular tusks.

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 ...

Later the remaining portion of the tusks were given a polish. Pillai said the problem when an elephant becomes cross tusked is that it will be unable to feed properly using its trunk and the ...