Elephants weren’t always the gentle giants we know today – their ancestors were some of the strangest creatures to walk the ...

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 ...

But a key question is whether such animals could survive if they roamed the Arctic tundra as their ancestors did thousands of years ago. Elephants live in complex societies governed by social ...

Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus greatly exceeded the size of modern African elephants. Adults grew to around four meters tall at the shoulder and weighed about 10 tonnes. In a study recently published ...

This range is important because female savanna elephants live in an elaborate “fission-fusion” society: their extended family units split up and regroup on a regular basis as they follow food ...

Corey Favino/Elephant Family USA and Newport Restoration Foundation Their journey began in the forested region of the Nilgiri Hills in the south of India. Each statue is modeled from a real ...

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 ...