A new study revealed that the loss of experienced elephants disrupts knowledge transfer between generations, putting elephant ...

Of extinct Ice Age animals, woolly mammoths are probably one of the most famous. But if they were still around, then our ...

Nearly 30 years ago, three wild bull elephants, Raja Gaj, Kancha, and Thula Hatti, roamed boldly through the dense forests ...

Mammoths and elephants, both belonging to the Elephantidae family, showcase distinct adaptations to different environments.

Newly found fossils show that those rivers were home to fish, turtles, river sharks, and even hippos. On land, elephants, ...

A fossilized elephant skull found in the Kashmir Valley is reshaping how scientists understand an ancient giant’s past.

Scientists use changes in DNA as a type of clock to estimate how long two species have been separated. Researchers found that ...

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study ...

Researchers analyzed fossils and DNA to get a big-picture view of sloth evolution and determine what drove their immense size ...

The larger sloths didn’t do much tree climbing, at risk of falling to their deaths. Instead, they survived by being ...

The extinct mammals were about five times larger than a grizzly bear–and filled caves with their poop.

African elephants are the largest land animals on earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless, Asian ...