Baby animals share many similarities with human babies. Baby chimpanzees will cry when their needs aren't being met. All babies love to cuddle up with their moms and look to them for protection. And ...

Roi-Yim the elephant. (Werribee Open Range Zoo via SWNS) By Dean Murray Look ma, my first tooth! A young elephant has delighted zoo staff by sprouting tiny tusks. Small jumbo Roi-Yim lives at Werribee ...

An elephant in India has undergone a root canal to relieve pain from a longtime tusk injury. The elephant had 0.5 kg (about 1.1 lb) of flesh that grew within the fractured tooth removed prior to the ...

Musth, a time of heightened testosterone levels and aggression in male elephants related to reproduction, has now been identified in woolly mammoth tusks. Remarkably, this is the first time hormones ...