Elephants are part of the Elephantidae family, which included ancient mammoths and multiple types of elephants. Gomphotheres ...

Over two decades ago, a team from the University of Jammu uncovered the giant fossilized skull of an extinct elephant species in India’s Kashmir Valley. The remains were uncovered along with 87 ...

Science | April 3, 2025. Ten Exceptional Ancient Elephants, From Small Swimming Creatures to Shovel-Tusked Beasts. A wide variety of the exotic animals evolved on Earth over the past 60 million years ...

Much of Earth was once grazing ground for now-lost herds of elephants - woolly mammoths in the Midwest, mastodons in Connecticut, pygmy elephants on the island of Sicily. Today we're down to three ...

During construction of the Metro Purple Line extension, workers stumbled across the remains of an ancient elephant. The first discovery, made just before Thanksgiving, was of a 3-foot section of ...

Ancient elephants switched from eating primarily leaves and shrubs to feeding on grass several million years before their teeth were fully adapted for grazing, according to a new study. The ...

An ancient elephant graveyard is finally giving up its secrets. Remains of straight-tusked elephants known as Palaeoloxodon were first uncovered near the town of Pampore, in the Kashmir Valley, when a ...

A modern elephants’ ability to thrive in various environments and versatility to eat multiple types of food might also explain the Asian elephants (Elephas maxius) survival in Asia, and the African ...

These ancient elephants evolved from a common elephant ancestor, the straight-tusked elephant, which was even bigger than modern elephants, weighing in at about 10 tons and standing over 12 feet tall.

The African elephant is actually two different species, according to a new DNA study that may settle a long-simmering debate. "The big surprise of this paper," though, is just how genetically ...