WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Thousands of years before a tiny pygmy hippopotamus from a zoo in ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, so-called dwarf elephants inhabited the island of Sicily off the coast of Italy. Apparently, it didn’t take long for these elephants to shrink after their arrival on ...

Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Node Leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University Corey J. A. Bradshaw receives ...

For a long time, zoologists assumed that there were only two species of elephant: one Asian and one African. Then genetic analyses suggested that the African elephant could be divided into two ...

In May 2021, a photograph supposedly showing a dwarf elephant was shared on social media: This is a genuine photograph of an elephant with dwarfism that was spotted at Sri Lanka's Uda Walawe National ...

A new show on "The Secret World of Elephants" at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City dishes on the evolution and remarkable lives of these huge (and sometimes dwarf) pachyderms.

New research suggests that in as little as 40 generations, elephants could have become dwarf size on the island off Italy’s boot. By Jeanne Timmons Elephants today are confined to the African and ...

The smallest dwarf mammoth, standing at under 4 feet (about 1 meter) at the shoulders, has been uncovered on the Greek island of Crete, researchers say. These findings could help yield insights as to ...

Cyprus was home to only these two species of megafauna during the Late Pleistocene. The dwarf elephant was roughly 1,000 pounds, compared to its much larger modern counterparts that can reach up to 12 ...