Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cyprus was home to only these two species of megafauna during the Late Pleistocene. The dwarf elephant was roughly 1,000 pounds, ...

A new study has uncovered the likely cause behind the mysterious disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Researchers have concluded that ...

Scientists discovered this ancient elephant fossil on the island of Sicily. They said the elephant shrunk rapidly over a million years because of the constraints of the island. The tiny elephant, and ...

A new show on "The Secret World of Elephants" at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City dishes on the evolution and remarkable lives of these huge (and sometimes dwarf) pachyderms.

An extinct species of dwarf elephant halved in height and shrank by almost 85% in body mass over a period of just 350,000 years after evolving from one of the largest land mammals that ever lived, ...

Scientists have unravelled a mystery about the disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the picturesque landscape on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus before palaeolithic humans ...

Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Node Leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University Corey J. A. Bradshaw receives ...

Installation view of The Secret World of Elephants at the American Museum of Natural History showing how elephants' ears cool them. (all photos AX Mina/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) Until I ...

The largest land mammal of our time has an evolutionary story at least 60 million years in the making. On Monday, a new exhibit revealing the ‘secret lives’ of the trunked giants will open at New York ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Thousands of years before a tiny pygmy hippopotamus from a zoo in ...