“We already know that Madagascar’s megafauna – elephant birds, hippos, giant tortoises and giant lemurs – became extinct less than 1,000 years ago,” said lead author Dr. James Hansford ...

Madagascar’s extinct elephant birds – the largest birds ever to have lived – have captured public interest for hundreds of years. Little is known about them due to large gaps in the skeletal ...

An elephant tusk thought to date back to when they were hunted by pre-historic humans has been unearthed in the Middle East. The 500,000-year-old and 8ft-long tusk was discovered near Reitan ...

An elephant skull discovered in Kashmir 24 years ago has been identified as belonging to the extinct "straight-tusked" Palaeoloxodon species, one of the largest elephant species ever to roam the ...

Elephant birds — or “Aepyornithiformes” — grew up to a whopping 10 feet tall, with some thought to have weighed more than 110 stone. They went extinct around 1,000 years ago, after humans ...

An extinct species of dwarf elephant from Sicily halved in height and shrank by almost 85 per cent in body mass over a period of just 350,000 years after evolving from one of the largest land ...

June 18, 2021 at 4:00pm BST An extinct species of dwarf elephant halved in height and shrank by almost 85% in body mass over a period of just 350,000 years after evolving from one of the largest ...

A new study published by a team of international researchers found that a now-extinct species of dwarf elephant halved in height and shrank by nearly 85 per cent body mass on the island of Sicily.