But later analysis of how the mammal’s tusks were worn down hints at something else. Amebelodon was a forest elephant, browsing on trees and using the lower tusks to scrape bark from trees.

The police seized four elephant tusks weighing seven kilograms, a car, and two bikes used for smuggling. Investigations revealed these tusks were cut off dead elephants 20 years ago in Mettur forest.

Tusks are a valuable tool, but the elephant manages to make them significantly more valuable thanks to its impressive intelligence. What Are Elephant Tusks Made Of?

However, they’re also working with other organizations to cut off the ivory trade by stopping the market for it and seizing illegal ivory products.

Three men arrested near Kodaikanal for attempting to sell an elephant tusk. Forest department intercepts off-road vehicle with illegal ivory trade. Investigation underway to determine tusk's origin.

Conan the Persistent continues his search for A'Kanna inside the cavern ruins. Despite being called an elephant graveyard, this place is populated by monstrous apes, who have cheap and retarded ...

Botswana alone is home to a third of the entire African elephant population – more than any other country in the world.

Armed with a saw, he went back to the forest and piteously begged the elephant to let him cut his tusks off so that he could earn money. The gentle elephant agreed and knelt down.

Thailand has confiscated two tons of African elephant tusks worth millions of dollars being smuggled through a Bangkok port, in what authorities said Friday was the country's largest ivory seizure.

Thus, the only feasible way to harvest tusks from elephants is to kill them or take them off a dead elephant. An elephant’s tusk will keep growing throughout its lifespan, but it will stop growth if ...