Extinct species we discover and learn about ... feet, trunks, and tusks. Elephants have large ears and incredible hearing ability. They can communicate at a number of frequencies inaudible to ...

Megafauna were large animals, some of which remain today, including elephants, moose and whales. There were several megafauna species that went extinct fairly recently in geological time during ...

Today, sloths are slow-moving, tree-dwelling creatures that live in Central and South America and can grow up to 2.5 feet ...

Afar is a hotspot with hot rock masses rising from deep within the mantle. It created volcanism and lifted the landscape in ...

It was much larger than the woolly mammoth and roughly twice as big as today’s African ... Straight-tusked elephants went extinct at least 30,000 years ago; many factors were probably to blame ...

When humans appeared, he said, often large animals went extinct—but scientists still don’t know why the elephant bird was one of them. “What is it that early humans are doing that's resulting in ...

The skeleton of an extinct ancestor of the elephants was recently uncovered ... the team was finding them on top of the one large skeleton, the museum's blog post said. The large skeleton is ...

Additionally, today's large herbivores cannot entirely replace ... Today's potential range of the extinct elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus, Frontiers of Biogeography (2025). DOI: 10.21425/fob.

Madagascar’s extinct elephant birds – the largest birds ever to have lived – have captured public interest for hundreds of years. Little is known about them due to large gaps in the skeletal fossil ...

Then there are elephant seals. Once on the brink of extinction ... The species was presumed extinct by the late 1870s. Remarkably, a small cluster of animals survived in Baja California.

This study was funded in part by the Australian Research Council and other international funding bodies. Madagascar’s extinct elephant birds – the largest birds ever to have lived – have ...