A hoard of more than 100 elephant tusks aboard a sunken ship that was lost for nearly 500 years has been traced to West Africa in a new study. Scientists used DNA analysis to compare the well-preserved tusks – recovered from a 16th century Portuguese shipping vessel called the Bom Jesus that was discovered in … Read more
A hoard of more than 100 elephant tusks aboard a sunken ship that was lost for nearly 500 years has been traced to West Africa in a new study. Scientists used DNA analysis to compare the well-preserved tusks – which were recovered from a 16th century Portuguese shipping vessel called the Bom Jesus that was … Read more
The human ORC: Tattooist has TUSKS fitted to complete his look as a fictional monster after undergoing huge range of body modifications Orc, 41, tattooed 80 per cent of his body and has eight subdermal piercings He paid £400 to have two giant fake tusks fitted onto his bottom row of teeth The 41-year-old has … Read more
Mystery as 11 elephants are found dead in Zimbabwe: Poaching ruled out as animals all retained their tusks The carcasses were discovered in Pandamasue Forest in the west of the country Cyanide poisoning has also been ruled out as a cause of the elephants’ deaths Blood samples have been taken to a laboratory to determine what … Read more
Excavations in Mexico have revealed a graveyard of almost 70 fossilised mammoths. Stunning images from the site reveal the bright white skulls and tusks of the prehistoric giants. Fossilised remains of the now extinct cousin of the elephant were first discovered in 2019 during routine digs to clear land for a new airport. Ongoing work … Read more
An almost complete 300,000-year-old elephant skeleton with eight-foot tusks has been recovered from a former mine in Germany. The Eurasian straight-tusked elephant, Palaeoloxodon antiquus, died by the shores of an ancient lake before its corpse was scavenged by carnivores. Human ancestors are thought to have eaten from the carcass, as 30 small flint flakes and … Read more