two materials that are present in teeth and tusks in elephants. MEP1a, on the other hand, is crucial in the formation of dentin, the core mineral in tusks. The study was made on African elephants ...

Unlike teeth, tusks keep growing over time ... Due to the ivory trade, nearly 90% of African elephants have been eradicated in the past century. It is estimated that 415,000 wild African elephants ...

Titan, a 16-year-old adult male African elephant, arrived in Atlanta on Wednesday from Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas ...