More than a million years ago, a prehistoric “quicksand trap” caused numerous elephants to perish. A team of researchers from institutions in Spain was studying an archaeological site called ...

Evidence from the site suggests hyenas and prehistoric humans may have scavenged on the half-sunken carcasses of the stricken elephants.

Last fortnight there were in captivity just two sea elephants, both in Germany. One day in the Hanover Zoo, four-ton Goliath III sighed through his dewlap snout and died. Forty-eight hours later ...

More than 90 percent of species that have lived over the course of Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history are extinct. Our planet has preserved evidence of this incredibly diversity of prehistoric ...

Mysterious elephant species uncovered with 87 prehistoric stone tools A new analysis of this 400,000-year-old skull fills in missing branches on the elephant evolutionary tree. By Laura Baisas ...

Neanderthals Hunted Down Massive Prehistoric Beasts. The straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) roamed Europe and western Asia during the Pleistocene era, approximately 800,000 to ...

The prehistoric beasts that roamed ancient Britain – including giant ‘Irish Elk’ with 12ft antlers and 13-ton elephants Some of these creatures would have lived alongside early humans ...

Animals at Houston Zoo were treated to a rare frosty treat last week when a snowstorm swept through Texas. In adorable video footage, an Asian elephant was seen trotting through the snow, while a ...

However, there were also other incredible prehistoric animals. After the extinction of the dinosaurs during the Cretaceous mass extinction (the fifth mass extinction) about 66 million years ago, a ...

The prehistoric beasts that roamed ancient Britain – including giant ‘Irish Elk’ with 12ft antlers and 13-ton elephants Some of these creatures would have lived alongside early humans ...