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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 7, No. 8 (Aug. 15, 1921), pp. 231-234 (4 pages) ...