A progressive "march" of elephant evolution as portrayed in Ingersoll's The Life of Animals. From left to right Moeritherium, Palaeomastodon, Gomphotherium ("Trilophodon"), Mammut americanum (American ...

Not so long ago, the trumpeting of elephants could be heard across a great deal of our planet. Wrinkly-skinned giants did not only inhabit Africa and southern Asia, but roamed from prehistoric ...

Elephants, those large and lumbering landlubbers, used to live partially in the water, according to new research. A recent study found that an ancient elephant ancestor called moeritherium spent most ...

THROUGH the discoveries in the Oligocene 1 of the Fayûm Mœritherium and Palæomastodon have become famous as two of the earliest, and more or less direct, stages in the ancestry of the elephants. In ...

The scientists were investigating the lifestyle of two early elephants (proboscideans) Moeritherium and Barytherium that lived in the Eocene period, over 37 million years ago. By analysing isotopes in ...

The family tree of the largest living land animal may have its roots deep in the water, a new study suggests. Chemical signatures from fossil teeth reveal that at least one species of proboscidean, an ...

LONDON: An ancient relative of today's elephants lived in water, a team led by an Oxford University scientist has found. The scientists were investigating the lifestyle of two early elephants ...

PERHAPS of all the groups of mammals at present existing, no two are more dissimilar in general form than the Proboscidea and the Sirenia, but, nevertheless, the suggestion made long ago by de ...

A progressive “march” of elephant evolution as portrayed in Ingersoll’s The Life of Animals. From left to right Moeritherium, Palaeomastodon, Gomphotherium (“Trilophodon“), Mammut americanum (American ...

A wide variety of the exotic animals evolved on Earth over the past 60 million years Riley Black - Science Correspondent The tusks of ancient elephants came in a variety of shapes and sizes.

Elephants, those large and lumbering landlubbers, used to live partially in the water, according to new research. A recent study found that an ancient elephant ancestor called Moeritherium spent most ...