Tusks are continuously growing incisors. Typically, adult elephant teeth comprise 12 premolars, 12 molars, and two tusks. These twin teeth are composed of four layers, the outermost being the enamel.

To test this idea, Saarinen first measured recent elephant teeth from Kenya's Tsavo East National Park, which confirmed his initial postulation . He and Lister then turned to Africa's wealth of ...

The elephant from Ceylon had molars with wavy ridges on the surface, 'like festooned ribbons,' while the elephant from the Cape of Good Hope had teeth with ridges arranged in the shape of diamonds.

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 ...

Existing elephant species are the remnants of a once prosperous lineage of megaherbivores called proboscideans, whose evolutionary epic spanned 60 million years and some 200 species.

Forest personnel have picked up three persons after reportedly seizing elephant tusks and teeth from them. Following a tip-off, the forest personnel conducted a surprise check in the house of T ...

Photo taken on Sept. 6, 2010 shows fossilized elephant teeth discovered in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, central China's Hubei Province. Elephant fossils, dating back to 500,000 ...