However, there exists some controversy amongst paleontologists about tangible links between fossil evidence of extinct species and modern-day elephant species. This calls to question their status ...

Researchers have provided new insights into how ancestral elephants developed their dextrous trunks. A study of the evolution of longirostrine gomphotheres, an ancestor of the modern day elephant ...

A new forensic test could help identify poached elephant ivory being disguised and smuggled as legal mammoth tusks.

Australian company Vow says it has used advanced molecular engineering to resurrect the woolly mammoth in meatball form.

What is a white elephant gift exchange? Learn the origin of this classic game and explore gift ideas so your present is the one everybody fights over.

The Old And The New Inhabiting the grasslands, forests, and marshes, an ancient relative of the modern-day elephant existed from around 34 million years ago.

"The mammoth itself would have looked like a much bigger version of a modern-day elephant — up to 13 feet tall, and weighing 14 tons," noted the Peterborough Telegraph. Jordan, who reportedly ...

But it was not until 145 million years ago that they started evolving into bigger sizes—10 times the height of the modern-day African elephant.

Modern-day Wisconsin was once a shallow sea, home to coral reefs, giant jellyfish, pointy-shelled octopus relatives and other interesting creatures.

In 2022, Hysolli and her team announced that they had sequenced the entire genome of the Asian elephant, which shares 99.8% of its genes with the mammoth.

The very notion of resurrecting the long-extinct woolly mammoth was the stuff of fantasy not that long ago, but scientists are already working on ways to achieve something close to that, using DNA ...