or a species closer to an Indian elephant than cold-favouring woolly mammoths. Qays Najm/BBC Mr Clayden has been helped to retrieve the bones by other amateur fossil hunters "It was absolutely ...

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 foot-tall (1.40 meters) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in ...

Their unusually shaped feet are quite similar to that of ungulates, and fossil evidence suggests that there once existed a larger diversity of elephant species whose body structure puts them in ...

In the extended Arctic daylight, he and his team spend weeks at a stretch recovering the bones and tusks of woolly mammoths, the lumbering precursors of today's elephants that until about 10,000 ...

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.

A new study uncovers an unexpected member of the species' evolutionary lineage in Portugal, challenging conventional assumptions about its habitat preferences. An international team of scientists has ...

This is giving us accurate dates for when dwarf elephants and dwarf deer lived on Mediterranean ... and especially Sicily and Malta to gather more fossil evidence. The research is being carried out by ...

IN the icy and swampy pasts of the ancient British Isles, colossal creatures were free to roam. Much has changed in the ...

Owen's statue at the Museum shows him holding the moa bone fragment, and one of the elephant bird eggs is on display in the Bird Gallery. The collection also contains older fossil bird specimens from ...