The teeth of most mammals, including humans, are only replaced once in a lifetime, when the milk teeth give way to the permanent teeth. This one change is enough to adapt to the increasing size of the ...

The bones belonged to a prehistoric elephant, that much was certain, but they came from a species unlike any documented before. Paleontologists had uncovered a rib and single toe, alongside a nearly ...

African elephants are the largest mammals walking the Earth, yet they only have four teeth. As you might expect, though, their teeth are tremendous. Each tooth of an adult elephant is about the size ...

Elephants have six sets of teeth over their lives, sometimes two sets at once. At those times, they can extract more nutrition from food and put on weight. Researchers at the University of Zurich’s ...

Steven Zhang conducts research at the University of Helsinki, hosted through funding from the Research Council of Finland awarded to Juha Saarinen. Seeing elephants in the wild is a timelessly ...

The animals’ extended lower jaws were seemingly made for scooping, but research over the past few decades has found they could do a lot more than initially expected Riley Black - Science Correspondent ...