For the first time worldwide, the complete DNA of all Asian elephant subspecies has been mapped. It has also been genetically ...

Elephant ivory is known for being soft, can be carved into tools and jewelry and has been sought after for many years. The interesting thing about ivory is that its value is all in our heads.

A progressive “march” of elephant evolution as portrayed in Ingersoll’s The Life of Animals. From left to right Moeritherium, Palaeomastodon, Gomphotherium (“Trilophodon“), Mammut ...

African elephant herd with tuskless matriarch. A new study suggests that severe ivory poaching in parts of Mozambique has led to the evolution of tuskless elephants.

The Evolution of Elephants Palaeoloxodon antiquus is known as the straight-tusked elephant because of its distinctive and somewhat bizarre appearance. Its ancestors, the Palaeoloxodon recki, lived ...

A recent study published in Nature shows how the African elephant started evolving morphologically nearly ten million years ago by switching from a leaf browsing (C3) to grass eating (C4) animals.

The paper, by J.R. Hutchinson at the The Royal Veterinary College in London, UK, and colleagues, was titled, “From Flat Foot to Fat Foot: Structure, Ontogeny, Function, and Evolution Of Elephant ...

Humans aren’t the only animals that use rituals to connect and bond. Elephant researcher CAITLIN O’CONNELL has spent 30 years studying wild elephants in Namibia, observing their complex behavior, and ...

A progressive “march” of elephant evolution as portrayed in Ingersoll’s The Life of Animals. From left to right Moeritherium, Palaeomastodon, Gomphotherium (“Trilophodon“), Mammut ...

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