But many other animals have tusks including warthogs, hippopotamuses, Arctic-dwelling walruses, and even a five-pound, guinea pig looking animal called hyraxes.

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Watch this rare symbiotic relationship as a mongoose grooms a warthog and then learn what each species is gaining.

These animals are capable of using their tusks as tools, but they also express the rare capacity to actually craft tools of their own — and tusks play a critical role in this process.

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Weird pig-size animals with tusks were surviving a mass extinction, but not thriving. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. About ...

A meme showing an elephant and rhino with pink tusks and horns is altered. This is a doctored representation of anti-poaching conservation efforts.

Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory. ...

If we separate out the tusks — which are different from regular teeth because they don’t even fit inside the animal’s mouth — then some of the biggest teeth belong to the hippopotamus. The lower ...

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A prehistoric creature with "gnarly teeth" and "fang-like tusks" that lived hundreds of millions of years ago has been discovered in Australia.

One of the tusks measured 16 feet 4 inches and the other was more than 15 feet long, the research team said. They were found with the animal's upper and lower jaws — still bearing teeth — and ...