Explore 15 wild animals that are rarely seen and often live in remote or protected habitats. These extraordinary species, including the Northern Hairy-Nosed Wombat, Pangolin, and Three-Toed Pygmy ...

Her memoir promises an insider’s account of the Cameron years – but instead provides a study in overwhelming self-pity.

Elephants weren’t always the gentle giants we know today – their ancestors were some of the strangest creatures to walk the Earth. In this video, we explore the bizarre evolutionary journey of ...

Dwarf elephants once inhabited the Aegean Islands and influenced Mycenaean culture through the use of their fossil remains. Credit: Ninjatacoshel, Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA 3.0 The dwarf elephants ...

Dr Tori Herridge on her fascination with Ice Age elephants and their evolutionary story.

Scientists have just resolved the mystery of the extinction of dwarf elephants and dwarf hippos on Cyprus 14,000 years ago.

Research links the rapid extinction of dwarf megafauna on Cyprus to early human settlers, whose hunting practices decimated these species quickly after their arrival. Researchers have solved a ...

The Secret World of Elephants is filled with interactive activities about our gargantuan cousins that are as much fun for grown-ups as they are for kids.

The extinction of dwarf elephants and hippos during the Late Pleistocene remains one of the most intriguing prehistoric mysteries. In the sprawling Mediterranean landscape of Cyprus, these were the ...

The dwarf hippopotamus was less than a tenth of the size of a common hippo, about the size of a boar (and the dwarf elephant was approximately the size of a horse.) But the common hippo was still the ...

According to new research, Stone Age humans in Cyprus likely hunted local dwarf hippos and elephants to the point of extinction around 12,000 years ago.