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 ...

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 ...

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.

A complete tusk from a large prehistoric elephant was uncovered near Kibbutz Revadim in southern Israel, archaeologists revealed on Wednesday. The find was made earlier in August during a two-week ...

Evidence is mounting that they were skilled toolmakers with a complex language who built shelters, traded jewelry and lived in large social ... Straight-tusked elephants went extinct at least ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.