Since Asian elephants have few predators, this lil' squish of an elephant, known as the Walawe Dwarf, managed to survive: Dwarfism is unusual in wild animals.

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 dwarf elephant from Sicily had a shoulder height of approximately 6.5 feet (2 metres), and weighed 1.7 tonnes, say a team that includes researchers at Nottingham Trent University.

It is possible that a small chunk of the dwarf elephant's DNA analysed years ago was extracted from a fragment of sequence inherited from the Asian elephant—and its other origins weren't picked up.

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.

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 world’s first documented wild dwarf elephant, who was seen briefly in 2013 before vanishing again, is alive and well, according to Pruthu Fernando, from the Centre for Conservation and ...

The dwarf elephant species lost more than 8,000kg in weight and more than 2m in height throughout its evolution, reports Celine Wadhera. Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent.

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.

Prehistoric 'dwarf' elephants the size of small donkeys roamed the Mediterranean islands 800,000 years ago while their relatives became giants with 'grotesque' bulging heads.

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 ...

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), ...