Researchers trace the first tusks back to ancient mammal relatives that lived before the dinosaurs and shed light on the evolution of mammalian tusks by first defining what makes a tusk a tusk. Most ...

An artist’s conception shows a type of dicynodont known as Dicynodon. (Illustration by Marlene Hill Donnelly) Dental exams conducted on fossils from more than 200 million years ago suggest that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MADISON COUNTY, Miss. − A Mississippi man found a tusk from the biggest mammal to ever walk across the state's land: A giant ...

Tusks are a striking feature of many animals -- elephants, hippos, warthogs, walruses -- and are often sought-after by humans. But no birds, fish or reptiles today sport this extreme and ever-growing ...

Around 13,200 years ago, a roving male mastodon died in a bloody mating-season battle with a rival in what today is northeast Indiana, nearly 100 miles from his home territory, according to the first ...

Aug. 31 (UPI) --Archaeologists in Israel announced Wednesday that they have uncovered a piece of ancient animal history -- a large tusk that belonged to an extinct elephant that used to roam the Earth ...

Mammoths are long to be known as ancient land dwellers, so scientists were shocked to find remains from the animal at the bottom of the ocean. Pilot Randy Prickett and scientist Steven Haddock, ...

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MADISON COUNTY, Miss. − A Mississippi man found a tusk from the biggest mammal to ever walk across the state's land: A giant mammoth. The discovery in Madison County is the first giant mammoth tusk ...