Human ancestors in India butchered a 10-tonnes giant elephant 300,000 years ago
Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus greatly exceeded the size of modern African elephants. Adults grew to around four meters tall at ...
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New giraffe taxonomy discovery stands tall: Four species, four unique skulls
Kargopoulos is the lead author of a new study, led by UCT, which has further confirmed, through their skull shapes, that ...
Giant Earth model to be the highlight of Swindon Festival of Tomorrow
A giant six-metre Earth model is set to be the highlight of Swindon's Festival of Tomorrow this year. The popular festival, ...
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How a giant prehistoric elephant skull helped untangle an evolutionary mystery
And did this giant meet its end at the hands ... which he had to crawl into to work on the skull! Our other colleagues from the British Museum, the London Natural History Museum, the University ...
Cranial Morphology Confirms There Really Are Four Giraffe Species
Originally assumed to comprise just one species, new research confirms 50 years of detailed studies that find giraffes are ...
Paleontologists learn from rare ‘Teen Rex’ specimen
Details about the juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex fossil discovered by three boys in North Dakota are beginning to take shape, ...
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Humans, not climate change, may have wiped out Australia’s giant kangaroos
About 40,000 years ago, giant kangaroos vanished Down Under. Dental analyses suggest a varied diet, meaning climate change was not the main cause.