Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a way of using DNA from elephant tusks to solve poaching mysteries and bring animal traffickers to justice. It's estimated at least ...

are lacking one distinguishable feature that elephants usually have: tusks. Researchers believe the heavy presence of poaching has led elephants here to evolve without tusks, so their human ...

Two suspects were arrested while trafficking elephant tusks weighing 14 kilograms in an operation in Imenti North, Meru ...

Because of poaching problems ... But the remaining population contained a significant number of elephants that lacked tusks. Models of the population suggest that the animals without tusks ...

An elephant’s tusks are among its defining features ... The resulting level of poaching was very intense.” Tusklessness does occur naturally – and only in females – even in the absence ...

Now researchers have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks. During the conflict from 1977 to 1992 ...

Female African elephants in ... born without their ever-crucial ivory tusks, and scientists are saying it's an evolutionary result of the brutal poaching and killing of the animals during the ...

Poaching has also pushed tusk sizes down ... by Duke University and the Kenya Wildlife Service compared the tusks of elephants captured there between 2005 and 2013 with those of elephants culled ...

Why do some female elephants not have tusks, and what might this have to do with poaching? Let’s dive in. Tusks are continuously growing incisors. Typically, adult elephant teeth comprise 12 ...

Elephant tusks are both a valuable tool and a potential liability for these gentle giants. The desire for ivory has made elephants popular targets for illegal poaching, and it can have a ...

Being the largest land animal, elephants play an important part in balancing the natural ecosystem. Due to their beautiful ...

Their job is fraught with danger, both from hostile humans armed with automatic weapons and from the unappreciative and potentially aggressive wildlife, armed with tusks, teeth and claws ...