Move over dinosaurs! After the end of the Cretaceous period, when the dinosaurs went extinct, prehistoric mammals began to develop and emerge. During the Eocene Epoch, which spanned 56-34 million ...

Aug. 31 (UPI) --Archaeologists in Israel announced Wednesday that they have uncovered a piece of ancient animal history -- a large tusk that belonged to an extinct elephant that used to roam the ...

Israeli Archaeologists Dig Up Large Tusk of Ancient Elephant The Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday that researchers found the 2.5-meter long fossil belonging to the long-extinct ...

Gomphotheres, an extinct relative of the modern elephant, ... The large creatures weighed up to 4 tonnes and could reach 3 meters (9.8 feet), ...

Madagascar’s extinct elephant birds – the largest birds ever to have lived – have captured public interest for hundreds of years. Little is known about them due to large gaps in the skeletal fossil ...

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 ...

However, acquiring elephants often comes at the cost of the lives of these large animals. According to reports , the African elephant population declined greatly in the 1970s and 1980s due to the ...

Israeli archaeologists have unearthed the titanic tusk of a prehistoric elephant in southern Israel, a remnant of a behemoth once hunted by early people around half a million years ago.