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, ...

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 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 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 ...

Reconstruction of an almost complete dwarf elephant skeleton found in the same cave, the Puntali cave. Credit: Archives of the Gemmellaro Geological Museum An extinct species of dwarf elephant ...

Imagine growing up beside the eastern Mediterranean Sea 14,000 years ago. You’re an accomplished sailor of the small watercraft you and your fellow villagers make, and you live off both the sea and ...

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 ...

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