These animals are capable of using their tusks as tools, but they also express the rare capacity to actually craft tools of their own — and tusks play a critical role in this process.

While similar in composition to tusks, tushes are much smaller, reaching a maximum length of 5 cm (about 2 inches). Essentially, these tushes are the equivalent of a baby elephant’s ‘milk ...

Archaeologists digging near a kibbutz in Southern Israel have come upon a giant prehistoric elephant tusk. The artifact belonged to a long-extinct straight-tusked elephant, which was hunted by ...