The fossils of a "weird" and bizarre-looking new reptile species from 200 million years ago have been identified ... In an interview with Live Science, Druckenmiller added the completeness of ...

When not wallowing in weird gear and ... knew Somali sengi elephant-shrews once roamed parts of Africa. There were examples -- some gathered hundreds of years ago -- in museum collections.

However, perhaps even more incredible are the creatures that have, sadly, long since gone extinct ... Dunkleosteus lived around 360 million years ago during the Devonian period, preying on ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid collided with ... at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., told Live Science. The most famous is the elephant. Though some of these strange creatures look ...

But not too long ago, the straight-tusked elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus lived throughout the continent, leaving a lasting trace on the European terrain. An April 2025 study in Frontiers in ...

Chemical signatures from fossil teeth reveal that at least one species of proboscidean, an ancient elephant ... lived long before the first modern elephants appeared about seven million years ago.

Six years ago, this video clip, sent by the flummoxed staff of the Everland Zoo, hit the inbox of elephant-communication ... that cheek-lip structure—they long ago traded it in for trunks ...

Scientists studied stone tools, bone flakes and rare elephant remains at a middle Pleistocene site ... hunting during the last Ice Age between around 50,000 and 34,000 years ago. Recreating their ...