These days, it’s rare to spot a southern elephant seal in New Zealand. These hefty mammals—the males can reach five metres ...

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African elephants are the largest mammals that live on land ... Forget what you’ve seen in pretty much every cartoon containing an elephant - they don’t actually eat peanuts, and we don ...

wiry hairs that actually help cool the elephant down. They act as heat conductors drawing heat away from the body. This is the first time any mammal’s hairs have been found to help lose ...

Fossil jaw of Missourium theristrocaulodon, an extinct relative of the elephant. Unearthed in 1840 by Albert Koch on the banks of a river in Missouri. The Museum's fossil mammal collection contains an ...

Even under today's climatic conditions, the long-extinct straight-tusked elephant could still live in Europe. This is the conclusion of a recent study. For this finding, the research group combined ...

These dwarf mammals are remarkable examples of rapid evolutionary change. For example, some dwarf elephants - such as those that lived on Sicily and Cyprus - were only about one metre tall as adults, ...

It may take 100 years for the southern elephant seal colony of Península Valdés in Argentine Patagonia to look like it did in 2022. A study published in Marine Mammal Science has projected ...