Elephants are incredibly ancient parts of our world. Technically called proboscideans, for the long trunks later forms would evolve, the very first appeared about 60 million years ago, when Earth ...

More than a million years ago, a prehistoric "quicksand trap" caused numerous elephants to perish. A team of researchers from institutions in Spain was studying an archaeological site called ...

Colossal’s woolly mammoth patent application, with its descriptions of modified cells and animals, represents “the current standard in biotech cases,” says Cassie Edgar, a partner at the law firm ...

The repeated evolution of huge birds is part of the dinosaurian legacy. Beaked birds were the only dinosaurs to have survived ...

allowing land animals such as the ancient ancestors of elephants to cross between the two continents. Credit: lisha Steinberger "This study has relevance to the question of 'How did our planet ...

Covered in two shaggy layers of fur, these ancient elephants were approximately the size of African elephants but with significantly smaller ears - another clever evolutionary feature that helped ...

among them is the ancient elephant-like being called the Deinotherium. These gigantic mammals are renowned for their incredible strength and herd behaviour, so you might want to have them at your ...

Peulh herdspeople, in an encampment above, tolerate the animals. Carlton Ward, Jr. The region is barely habitable for elephants (wallowing in the last mud of a water hole that dried up two days ...

Although no mammoth-elephant hybrid has yet been born, foundational milestones such as genome editing, cellular viability, and ancient DNA analysis have already been reached. Note: Materials ...

This gradual uplift of land enabled the early ancestors of animals such as giraffes, elephants ... in land that contributed to closing the ancient Tethys Sea, splitting it into what is now ...