Elephants - the largest land animals alive today - are the only remaining species of the family Elephantidae, which belongs to an ancient order of Proboscidea ... during the first half of the ...

Proboscidea A Monograph, on the Discovery, Evolution, Migration and Extinction of the Mastodonts and Elephants of the World. By Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn. Mabel Rice Percy. (Published on the J.

Both animals, as well as the woolly mammoth, are members of the order Proboscidea, a name that comes from the Greek word proboskis, which means nose. The difference between mastodons and mammoths ...