(MENAFN- The Conversation) Seeing elephants in the wild is a timelessly awe-inspiring experience. There are only three living species today: the African savannah elephant, African forest elephant, and ...

The fossil record shows that, 20 million years ago, proboscidean teeth looked completely different. These teeth had rounded cusps aligned in pairs, versatile for chewing up a wide range of plant food ...

Seeing elephants in the wild is a timelessly awe-inspiring experience. There are only three living species today: the African savannah elephant, African forest elephant, and Asian elephant. They are ...

Seeing elephants in the wild is a timelessly awe-inspiring experience. There are only three living species today: the African savannah elephant, African forest elephant, and Asian elephant. They are ...

A new study by palaeontologists Juha Saarinen and Adrian Lister provides insights into how natural selection favored modern elephants as the only surviving branch of proboscideans. The study focuses ...

A new study shows that the cheek teeth of proboscideans (elephants and their ancient relatives) evolved in response to dietary changes due to vegetation changes and climate change in East Africa ...

How can we ever know what ancient animals ate? For the first time, the changing diets of elephants in the last two million years in China have been reconstructed, using a technique based on analysis ...

A new study, led by scientists at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing, China, including University of Bristol PhD student Zhang Hanwen, examined the ...

A new study examined the feeding habits of ancient elephant relatives that inhabited Central Asia some 17 million years ago. A new study, led by scientists at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology ...

Elephant experts are defending the animals’ reputation after it was reported that a pachyderm bit and broke a woman’s arm at a Bali animal park that has been visited by Kim Kardashian, Julia Roberts ...

"Elephant ear" is a common name for several plant genuses within the Araceae family, including Colocasia, Alocasia, and Xanthosoma. If you're a plant lover, you may have been drawn in by elephant ears ...