Growing between 10 to 13 feet tall, it is a rare type of elephant – positively prehistoric looking – known as a Super Tusker. “My first encounter with a big tusker was here in Tsavo National ...

The death of this tusker also means money, some of which filters back into the economy and local community. An elephant hunt varies in cost from $25,000 to $75,000 per trophy.

Will Burrard-Lucas encountered a rare big tusker known as the “Elephant Queen” in Kenya before she died and took some incredible pictures. The animal was one of about 30 remaining in Africa.

In 2017, poachers killed and mutilated a big tusker named Satao II who was nearly 50 years old; one of the creature's tusks weighed 114 lbs. (51.5 kilograms) and the other weighed 111 lbs. (50.5 ...

A big tusker stands beside the road, as though waiting for us. His body is mud-caked, his left ear notched. His tusks scythe grasses flushed with the scent of rain; ...