At the end of the 18th century, Georges Cuvier was thinking quite seriously about elephant teeth. He was working in Paris, in the National Museum of Natural History, where he had unusual access to ...

Add a tropical touch to your garden or a decorative backdrop to your indoor space with elephant ear plant These tropical Asian natives will grow as perennials in warm climates. Elephant ears prefer ...

Because tooth shape varies with fracture properties of the foods that primates eat, relationships between dental form and function can teach us about the diets of our distant ancestors. Aristotle ...

"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 ...

Smile big, hippos. Your pearly whites are helping scientists monitor the health of Africa’s elephants. A recent study revealed that the teeth of decades-old hippo skeletons hold information about ...

An elephant bush (Portulacaria afra) is a perennial plant with fleshy green leaves and reddish-brown stems. The elephant bush ...

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 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 ...

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