The Evolution of Elephants Palaeoloxodon antiquus is known as the straight-tusked elephant because of its distinctive and somewhat bizarre appearance.

However, when the environment got wetter, the teeth didn’t become less resistant. Instead, they stayed pretty similar until drier conditions drove the next burst of evolution. Professor Adrian Lister, ...

Fossil teeth and deep-sea drilling are guiding scientists through the evolution of the largest living land animals. As Africa became increasingly arid over the past 10 million years, elephant teeth ...

The Sicilian dwarf elephant was a tiny, evolutionary marvel. An exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History features a model of it and its baby.

Giant elephant skull found in Himalayas leaves scientists perplexed Fossil found in Kashmir valley quarter century ago could represent missing link in elephant evolution, researchers say ...

While investigating ancient DNA from the extinct straight-tusked elephant, researchers discovered facts that could cause a giant-sized shakeup of the evolutionary tree. A revised tree showing ...

Boobs are back. Also, they never went away. This is part of Boobs Week—read the whole thing here. Breasts are usually not the first thing we notice on an elephant. You might have never noticed ...

Scientists have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks.

Scientists say they have calculated the date at which the African and the Asian elephant went their separate ways. The two elephant species diverged from a common ancestor some 7.6 million years ago, ...

For the elephant shark, evolution is so 400 million years ago It's a living fossil to beat all others. The elephant shark, Callorhinchus milii (pictured), has the slowest-evolving genome of any ...

The first study to measure how fast large-scale evolution can occur in mammals found that it takes 24 million generations for a mouse-sized animal to evolve to the size of an elephant.

Researchers have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks.