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 ...
About one-third of those have been unearthed in Orange County — the “premier hotspot for these ancient relatives of modern elephants,” the release stated. The first known mastodon fossil ...
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 ...
IN the icy and swampy pasts of the ancient British Isles, colossal creatures were free to roam. Much has changed in the ...
400,000 years ago, early humans in Europe, Asia and Africa lived alongside giant straight-tusked elephants, far bigger than their modern-day cousins. Their evolution has long been a mystery to ...