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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...