Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 400,000 years ago, early humans in Europe, Asia and Africa lived alongside giant straight-tusked elephants, far bigger than their ...

Field rangers in parts of Africa, who monitor elephant herds, began to notice something unusual. Some of the females in certain herds looked different. Specifically, whereas long ivory tusks normally ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks. The research was published ...

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Elephants living in modern zoos are living significantly longer than they did half a century ago, according to a study ...

About 400,000 years ago, early humans in Europe, Asia and Africa lived alongside giant straight-tusked elephants, far bigger than their modern-day cousins. Their evolution has long been a mystery to ...