Modern elephants are impressive, but their extinct relatives were far stranger. This documentary explores prehistoric ...

On Thursday, July 16, join Harris Center Naturalist Susie Spikol for a fascinating journey to the Ice Age to discover the colossal beasts that once roamed New England.

Prehistoric proboscideans were far stranger and more diverse than modern elephants, evolving bizarre tusks, enormous bodies, and feeding adaptations unlike anything alive today. Some species, like ...

Ancient tools from the Carolinas held traces of extinct megafauna. Image credit - Scientific Reports (Sci Rep) ISSN 2045-2322 (online) One challenge that archaeologists face when researching Ice Age ...

Painting of mastodons in their habitat. Credit: Courtesy of Ursula Weidner The village of Neokaisaria, with its 300 inhabitants, is located between Mount Olympus and the Pieria Mountains in Greece and ...

A wide variety of the exotic animals evolved on Earth over the past 60 million years Riley Black | Science Correspondent The tusks of ancient elephants came in a variety of shapes and sizes.

Human hunting was the key factor in the loss of dozens of elephant-like species in the past 2 million years, according to an AI-assisted analysis of thousands of fossils. The extinction rate of these ...

New analyses help to reveal the evolutionary pressures that gave rise to the trunks of modern elephants. The elephant’s trunk is one of the most efficient food-gathering organs in the animal kingdom.

Seeing elephants in the wild is a timelessly awe-inspiring experience. There are only three living species today: the African savannah elephant, African forest elephant, and Asian elephant. They are ...