A fossilized tusk from a giant prehistoric elephant that once roamed around the Mediterranean has emerged from an excavation site in southern Israel, offering what archaeologists said was a rare ...

From their floppy ears to their giant trunks and massive size, there’s a lot that stands out about the elephant. Elephant tusks are both a valuable tool and a potential liability for these ...

A well-preserved 500,000-year-old 2.5-meter-long elephant tusk has been discovered by archeologists and paleontologists near a kibbutz in the south of Israel. It took experts from the Israel ...

While they certainly looked the part, these giant ancient elephant-like animals were herbivores and used their tusks for defense and as tools. Not much is known about other animals that were ...

Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory. ...

From their floppy ears to their giant trunks and massive size, there’s a lot that stands out about the elephant. Elephant tusks are both a valuable tool and a potential liability for these ...

A complete tusk from a large prehistoric elephant was uncovered near Kibbutz Revadim in southern Israel, archaeologists revealed on Wednesday. The find was made earlier in August during a two-week ...