Misha lived her whole life in zoos, but this elephant’s teeth are now helping scientists reconstruct wildlife migrations. University of Utah geologists show how strontium isotopes found in teeth or ...

Scientists used strontium isotopes in Misha the elephant’s teeth to track her movements, revealing a method to study ancient ...

AQUARTER of a century ago next April, the late Prof. E. D. Cope, struck by the remarkable fact that the molar teeth, both upper and lower, of all the mammals from the Puerco or lowest Eocene ...

Jumbo, the most famous elephant in the world ... The grinding wears down their teeth, making room for new molars — elephants grow six sets over their lifetime. Examining Jumbo’s massive ...

He reached out to Hogle Zoo to get permission to extract the elephant's molars and a tusk before she could be buried. What ...