The elephant, known as F_MU1, lived in Kenya's Tsavo region for more than 60 years, according to wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas, who captured stunning images of the stately pachyderm in ...

Amid an unprecedented spike in African elephant poaching, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) last week passed two motions it hopes will bolster protection for elephants and ...

An elephant's tusks are actually its teeth — its incisors, to be exact. Most of the tusk consists of dentin, a hard and dense bony tissue, and the entire tusk is coated with enamel, the hardest ...

Elephant experts are defending the animals’ reputation after it was reported that a pachyderm bit and broke a woman’s arm at a Bali animal park that has been visited by Kim Kardashian, Julia ...

Will Burrard-Lucas shot the final images of Kenya's "Elephant Queen." Will Burrard-Lucas Photography "F_MU1 was skinny and old but she strode forward with stately grace," he wrote.

Eight-year-old Jule and a zookeeper clean the teeth of "Mogli," a female elephant, at Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg, Germany, on Sept. 27. The zoo was participating in "Dental Hygiene Day." Good thing ...