Modern elephants are impressive, but their extinct relatives were far stranger. This documentary explores prehistoric proboscideans like Deinotherium, Platybelodon, and massive mastodons that once ...

A new study shows that the cheek teeth of proboscideans (elephants and their ancient relatives) evolved in response to dietary changes due to vegetation changes and climate change in East Africa ...

Research team of the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment investigates fossils of eight early relatives of elephants from the fossil-rich site ...

The latest study about of proboscideans (elephants and their ancient relatives) from the University of Helsinki provides proof that some proboscideans started to adapt to locally grass-rich ...