A hefty set of tusks is usually an advantage for elephants, allowing them to dig for water, strip bark for food and joust with other elephants. But during episodes of intense ivory poaching, those big ...

Scientists discovered this ancient elephant fossil on the island of Sicily. They said the elephant shrunk rapidly over a million years because of the constraints of the island. The tiny elephant, and ...

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 ...

Scientists have for the first time measured how fast large-scale evolution can occur in mammals, showing it takes 24 million generations for a mouse-sized animal to evolve to the size of an elephant.

DNAfrom the tooth of a mastodon that roamed up to 130,000 years ago suggests a new evolutionary timeline for elephants and their relatives — and perhaps even humans, researchers say. For the study, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A hefty set of tusks is usually an advantage for elephants, allowing them to dig for water, strip bark for food and joust with other elephants. But during episodes of intense ivory ...