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

A new study uncovered how ancient land shifts allowed elephants to cross from Africa to Asia millions of years ago.

The buried roots and stumps of an ancient forest in southern China are the charred remains of an ancient war and the burning of a capital city, according to a recent study from researchers who ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

However, some areas still contain fossils of ancient creatures buried underground ... was approximately 15 feet in height. "This species of elephant lived in India during the Pleistocene period ...

A team of scientists found prehistoric animal footprints that indicate how creatures behaved in Oregon as far back as 50 ...

A groundbreaking discovery in Chandrapur reveals rare fossils of Stegodon Ganesa, an ancient elephant species, dating back 25,000 years. Geologist Prof. Suresh Chopane's find includes bones and ...

The fossil expands the Denisovan's known range by thousands of kilometres and provides new insights into how this species ...

Before testing the jawbone, Welker and his colleagues sampled an elephant bone and pig bone ... DNA found in present-day people suggest the ancient species likely once lived across much of Asia ...