Damaged segments on fossils of male mastodons’ tusks hint that the creatures engaged in fierce combat with each other during a specific time almost every year of their adult lives, a new study ...

“Musth,” an annual ordeal which turns male elephants into oozing, aggressive pachyderms, appears to have also affected male mammoths that lived thousands of years ago, according to a new study.

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This elephant's weeping temporal glands and frequent urination are a sure sign he's in a condition known as musth. Musth ...

Ancient Hindu poetry describes the arrival of bees to “gather sweetness from the temples of [young] musth elephants” 5. In keeping with this poetic observation, we were struck by the powerful ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of two woolly mammoths fighting during an ice age. Male woolly mammoths turned into sex fiends when in heat, just ...

The trained bull elephant from Dudhwa, Gajraj, that became musth and was undergoing treatment at the abandoned rubber factory near Bareilly city was finally shifted back to the tiger reserve in ...

Jorhat, Oct. 30: When in musth, even friends turn into deadly foes. The Kaziranga National Park lost two domesticated adult male jumbos within a span of four days, with one succumbing to his injuries ...

A dozen forest officials and 20 Gajabandhus have been on their toes round the clock for past three days in the dense forests of Athgarh, about 65 km from here, to save a musth tusker from suspected ...