African elephants are the largest living land animal ... The Ivory tusks are actually massive teeth (incisors) that protrude ...

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 ...

African elephants actually include two species ... Elephant tusks are actually specialized, elongated teeth, and they keep growing for an elephant's entire life. Just like humans are right ...

Scientists use changes in DNA as a type of clock to estimate how long two species have been separated. Researchers found that ...

A new study shows that the cheek teeth of proboscideans (elephants and their ancient relatives ... the strongest peaks of drying of the East African climate during the last 7 million years ...

African elephant tusks nearly double those of the walrus. An adult male’s tusk, which in the elephant’s case are enlarged incisors, can be about 7.7 feet long. Like the baby teeth of humans, elephants ...

(Read about how our teeth evolved.) An African elephant, Malalka, shows off its tusks in Kenya’s Tsavo East National Park. Tusks may “look like canines that have become long,” but they’re ...

African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless ...