If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

From towering, tusked giants to bizarre, shovel-jawed species, prehistoric elephants came in a variety of strange forms. In this video, we explore the weird and wonderful evolution of elephants ...

Elephants are incredibly ancient parts of our world ... The beast’s skull was strange, too, having a long and low profile but bearing enlarged, tusk-like incisor teeth in both jaws.