A dwarf elephant the size of a Shetland pony once roamed the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. In the West Indies, a giant rat-like rodent tipped the scales at more than 400 pounds (180 kg ...

The largest elephant, P. antiquus — a 13-foot-tall (4 m), straight-tusked beast from Europe — likely swam to Sicily, where its descendants gave rise to the 98% lighter dwarf, P. falconeri.

Dwarf hippos and elephants in Cyprus ‘driven to extinction by just 3,000 people’ - Both animals disappeared within a century after hunter-gatherers arrived, scientists say.

Remains of dwarf elephants displayed at the Akamas Geology and Paleontology Information Center in Pano Arodes, western Cyprus. These creatures weighed 12 times less than male African elephants we ...

The juvenile Sicilian dwarf elephant. It had hair to help it keep warm. Maiya Focht These ancient elephants evolved from a common elephant ancestor, the straight-tusked elephant, which was even ...

The dwarf hippo weighed around 130kg, and the dwarf elephant came in at just over 500kg. We also know how to translate weights to estimates of population size, longevity, survival and fertility.

Visitors will learn about the iconic woolly mammoth, the dwarf elephant Palaeoloxodon falconeri (which lived in what is now Sicily and was only about 4 feet tall at its shoulders), ...

You can see impressive recreations of our modern-day elephants, a wooly mammoth and even dwarf elephants the size of a dog up close. When I think of an elephant, the adorable Dumbo or Horton Hears ...

Dwarf elephant models. A life-size model of an African elephant, the largest living land animal, with a video projection on one side showing the skeleton and how the elephant processes the huge ...

The dwarf elephant was roughly 1,000 pounds, compared to its much larger modern counterparts that can reach up to 12,000 pounds. The dwarf hippo was about 286 pounds, compared to the 9,000 pounds ...

A gomphotherium skull and mammoth model in the exhibit, with a dwarf elephant model at right. Photo: Alvaro Keding/© AMNH “It’s challenging to bring the elephant into the room, ...