An elephant’s tooth is not just large. It is built to handle a lifetime of chewing tough plants, from grass and leaves to ...

Discover what fossilized elephant teeth and tusk fragments can tell us about prehistoric ecosystems.

Elephants, with their majestic presence and iconic tusks, have always captivated our imagination. But did you know that climate change has dramatically reshaped even their teeth? A recent study ...

Seeing elephants in the wild is a timelessly awe-inspiring experience. There are only three living species today: the African savannah elephant, African forest elephant, and Asian elephant. They are ...

The latest study about of proboscideans (elephants and their ancient relatives) from the University of Helsinki provides proof that some proboscideans started to adapt to locally grass-rich ...

Fossilized cheek teeth have helped paleontologists learn a lot about what ancient elephants ate millions of years ago. Turns out, those with a less picky diet and more adaptability to changing ...

African elephants are the largest mammals walking the Earth, yet they only have four teeth. As you might expect, though, their teeth are tremendous. Each tooth of an adult elephant is about the size ...

About 700,000 years ago, a straight-tusked elephant roamed a lush river valley where early humans made stone tools. Now, one ...

A giant elephant molar from the Daughters of Jacob Bridge site in northern Israel has handed archaeologists a chemical record of the wetland that sat beside early humans roughly 700,000 years ago. The ...

Elephant experts are defending the animals’ reputation after it was reported that a pachyderm bit and broke a woman’s arm at a Bali animal park that has been visited by Kim Kardashian, Julia Roberts ...

A new study shows that the cheek teeth of proboscideans (elephants and their ancient relatives) evolved in response to dietary changes due to vegetation changes and climate change in East Africa ...