After the extinction of the dinosaurs, a different group of massive animals roamed the Earth. Learn about these huge ancient ...

Why Ancient Sloths Became the Size of Elephants—and Then Vanished Scientists figured out why this evolutionary strategy didn’t work out. By Natalia Mesa Published May 23, 2025 | Comments (19) 𝕏 ...

During the late middle Pleistocene, between 300 and 400 thousand years ago, at least three ancient elephant relatives died near a river in the Kashmir Valley of South Asia. Not long after, they ...

First discovered in late 2000 in the town of Pampore in India's Kashmir Valley, the skull and nearly 90 stone tools used by prehistoric humans were uncovered by researchers led by Ghulam Bhat from ...

The year-long project uncovered about 120 massive bones from two remarkably complete ancient elephant skeletons, the museum said. The ancient elephants lived about 10 million years ago and likely ...

Extreme elephant evolution The juvenile Sicilian dwarf elephant. It had hair to help it keep warm. Maiya Focht These ancient elephants evolved from a common elephant ancestor, the straight-tusked ...

Ancient humans quarried flint to make weapons for hunting and butchering elephants up to 2 million years ago in what's now the Upper Galilee region of Israel, a new study finds.

An ancient "elephant graveyard" chock-full of massive bones has been unearthed along what was once a prehistoric river in northern Florida. The fossils of these long-extinct beasts belong to ...

Another possibility is that the bone came from an elephant that was used in battle during the Roman Republic's second civil war between 49 B.C. and 45 B.C. in forces commanded by Julius Caesar.

More than 1,200 years ago, flightless elephant birds roamed the island of Madagascar and laid eggs bigger than footballs. While these ostrich-like giants are now extinct, new research from CU Boulder ...

Today, elephants roam the savannas of Africa and rainforests in Asia, but elephant ancestors once lived in Europe and North America before going extinct like the region’s other ancient megafauna.

Elephant seismicity is a relatively new field of study for scientists. However, those who have lived close to elephants won’t be surprised at the idea of the animals communicating through vibration.