Singer Cher is supporting campaigners who want the animals moved to a sanctuary instead of another zoo, with the star saying they deserve "peace and dignity." ...

If you were a kid of a certain era obsessed with adventures in far-flung lands, nothing thrilled like the 19th-century Western exploration of Africa. Burton, Grant and Speke embarking from ...

Revive the woolly mammoth1? It is an utterly mad idea. The furry pachyderm with the twisty tusks that went extinct 4,000 ...

Picture this: snow dusts the ground of a vast plain. Mountains rise in the distance, powerful winds sweep chilly air from the ...

The primary physical difference between male and female Asian elephants is their size. Males elephants are not only taller and heavier but also have larger tusks. They develop tusks twice as long as ...

Female Asian elephants usually lack tusks, which has the added benefit of making them less ... fewer than 500 individuals are unlikely to remain healthy enough to survive long term. In Cambodia, for ...

These tusks can grow up to 10 feet long and are used for defense and offense ... and working with local communities to find solutions that benefit both people and elephants. Asian elephant in water.

They are originally from Thailand and belong to the Asian elephant species ... angle relative to the length of the tusk. Microscopic examination of fossil ivory samples revealed broken lines, cracks, ...