If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

When looking at an African elephant and an Asian elephant side-by-side, you can really tell the differences in their head ...

There are two forms of African elephant, with different distributions and very ... We found a mosaic of features, including body size as large as savannah elephants, tusk and head shape like forest ...

DESCRIPTION: Savannah elephants are the larger of the two African elephant species. They also have thicker, more curved tusks, more triangulated ears, and differently shaped skulls. Both elephant ...

The elephant relative stood over six feet ... from elongated lower jaws tipped in long, squared-off tusks that created a shovel shape. Many fossil elephants were giants in their habitats, much ...