Megafauna were large animals, some of which remain today, including elephants, moose and whales. There were several megafauna species that went extinct fairly recently in geological time during ...

Due to their large size, any other animal that would ... Gomphotheres belonged to the Gomphotheriidae family, now all extinct. Elephants are part of the Elephantidae family. Now, just the Asian ...

Afar is a hotspot with hot rock masses rising from deep within the mantle. It created volcanism and lifted the landscape in northeastern Africa. Hot rock masses then flowed further north beneath the ...

It was much larger than the woolly mammoth and roughly twice as big as today’s African ... Straight-tusked elephants went extinct at least 30,000 years ago; many factors were probably to blame ...

When humans appeared, he said, often large animals went extinct—but scientists still don’t know why the elephant bird was one of them. “What is it that early humans are doing that's resulting in ...

Then there are elephant seals. Once on the brink of extinction ... The species was presumed extinct by the late 1870s. Remarkably, a small cluster of animals survived in Baja California.

Additionally, today's large herbivores cannot entirely replace ... Today's potential range of the extinct elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus, Frontiers of Biogeography (2025). DOI: 10.21425/fob.

The skeleton of an extinct ancestor of the elephants was recently uncovered ... the team was finding them on top of the one large skeleton, the museum's blog post said. The large skeleton is ...

Extinct elephant bird (YuRi Photolife/Shutterstock ... Their diet likely included leaves, fruits, seeds, and large quantities of grasses. This dietary preference would have made them important ...