Today, there exist only three elephant species, in Africa and Asia. Yet the diversity of proboscidean species and their distribution was significantly greater in the Earth's past. Researchers from the ...
Modern elephants are impressive, but their extinct relatives were far stranger. This documentary explores prehistoric ...
What are the cause and innate power for the biological evolution? This is a controversial problem from ancient times to now. The interpretation for the evolutionary process is at an ambiguous phase ...
Over the last 60 million years, proboscideans - the order of animals which includes elephants - changed dramatically as they expanded geographically and adjusted to various climate changes. New ...
Our early ancestors lived amidst a richer community of proboscideans than we see today. A new study, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, challenges claims that early human hunters slaughtered ...
Research team of the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment investigates fossils of eight early relatives of elephants from the fossil-rich site ...