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 ...

For a small Amazonian frog called Rhinella proboscidea, death is no impediment to sex. The males form huge mating balls in which dozens of individuals compete to fertilise a female. These ...

(4) 55 millions years discovered in 1996 by the same team (5) The elephant order or Proboscidea includes only 3 living species, but it has a very long and rich evolutionary history which is ...

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 ...