However, when the environment got wetter, the teeth didn’t become less resistant. Instead, they stayed pretty similar until drier conditions drove the next burst of evolution. Professor Adrian Lister, ...

CHOMPER CHANGE African elephants and their relatives began grazing on the savanna millions of years before they evolved teeth like those seen inside this elephant’s mouth, which are capable of ...

Researchers have sequenced proteins from an ancient rhino relative from the cold, dry Haughton crater site (shown) in the ...

An elephant bird would seem to be a creation of Dr. Seuss' imagination, until you see its enormous egg at the Museum of Natural History in Cambridge. It's the largest known egg, 15 times larger ...

A young man is accused of breaking into Paris’ Museum of Natural History and chainsawing a tusk off an elephant skeleton.

“Sea Monsters: Wonders of Nature and the Imagination,” which runs at the Harvard Museum of Natural History through June 26, 2026, is inspired by a course taught by the exhibition’s curator ...

Henry, the 13-foot-tall elephant that greets visitors at the National Museum of Natural History, is one popular pachyderm. On one recent morning, I watched as dozens of people vied for photos with ...

Traveling exhibit brings mastodons, mammoths and other mega fauna back to life at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

A new exhibit coming to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City examines elephants’ past, present, and future.

I Got a Sneak Peek of the American Museum of Natural History’s ‘The Secret World of Elephants’ Explore the big-eared, long-trunked, and incredibly social lives of Earth's largest land mammals.