Mammoths and elephants, both belonging to the Elephantidae family, showcase distinct adaptations to different environments.

All living elephant species and some extinct ones belong to the family Elephantidae. Impressively, the earliest members of the elephant superfamily were roaming the earth as far back as the ...

Researchers analyzed fossils and DNA to get a big-picture view of sloth evolution and determine what drove their immense size ...

Woolly mammoths roamed the frozen tundras of Europe, Asia and North America until they went extinct around ... the embryos of Asian elephants, the closest living relatives to woolly mammoths.

The creatures were on the “lost species” list and nobody knew if they were extinct or not ... a tiny member of the elephant shrew family that has just be spotted after over half a century ...

The key to the new discovery was some "cold case" genetics work on ancient, extinct elephant relatives: the woolly mammoth and the mastodon. The mastodon's nuclear genome, in particular ...

Most of these species went extinct too, leaving only the Asian elephant, the African bush ... the team’s model can estimate the relative contribution of numerous factors, says Hauffe.

Languages: English, Spanish Archaeologists have uncovered a prehistoric site in South America where hunter-gatherers butchered a now-extinct elephant relative more than 12,000 years ago.

Gomphotheres, an extinct relative of the modern elephant, roamed southern Chile thousands of years ago and might have been the target of group hunts by inhabitants of the region, Chilean ...