Scientists used strontium isotopes in Misha the elephant’s teeth to track her movements, revealing a method to study ancient ...

Misha lived her whole life in zoos, but this elephant's teeth are now helping scientists reconstruct wildlife migrations. Geologists show how strontium isotopes found in teeth or tusks reveal where ...

African elephant tusks nearly double those of the walrus. An adult male’s tusk, which in the elephant’s case are enlarged incisors, can be about 7.7 feet long. Like the baby teeth of humans, elephants ...

Teeth recovered from a beloved zoo elephant that died in 2008 are helping University of Utah geologists develop a method for ...

it’s just a fraction of the entire tusk — most of which is buried deep in the elephant’s mouth. Unlike teeth, tusks keep growing over time. You can even approximate an elephant’s age by ...

Teeth recovered from a beloved zoo elephant that died in 2008 are helping University of Utah geologists develop a method for tracking the movements of ...

He reached out to Hogle Zoo to get permission to extract the elephant’s molars and a tusk before she could be buried. What made the teeth so useful to Cerling and his colleagues was the ...

The two-and-a-half-year-old grey Standard Rex, arrived at the charity's Manchester & Salford Branch in August with front teeth that were so long they had started to curl like tusks and were ...