This gradual uplift of land enabled the early ancestors of animals such as giraffes, elephants, rhinoceroses, cheetahs, and even humans, to roam between Africa and Asia. The appearance of the land ...

This gradual uplift of land enabled the early ancestors of animals such as giraffes, elephants, rhinoceroses, cheetahs, and even humans, to roam between Africa and Asia. The appearance of the land ...

Stegodon ganesha is believed to be an ancestor of today's Asian elephants. "These fossils provide invaluable insight into the fauna of the Pleistocene period in this region," Professor Chopane said.

Elephants appear to have evolved their long, grasping trunks as a result of climate change pressures on their ancestors millions of years ago. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Mammoths and elephants, both belonging to the Elephantidae family, showcase distinct adaptations to different environments.

The latest example of this erosion, described this week by Michael Pardo and his colleagues in a paper in Nature Ecology and Evolution, concerns elephants. These creatures, they reckon ...