Giraffes are among the world's most recognizable animals. With their elongated necks and long legs, their gracious movements ...

A fossilized elephant skull discovered in northern India’s ... one million years ago before dispersing into Eurasia. Early African forms exhibited a narrow, convex forehead and minimal crest ...

DESCRIPTION: Savannah elephants are the larger of the two African elephant species. They also have thicker, more curved tusks, more triangulated ears, and differently shaped skulls. Both elephant ...

African elephants are the largest animals walking the Earth ... There are also differences in the size and shape of the skull and skeleton between the two species. Forest elephants are uniquely ...

the other African elephant species. Their ears are more oval-shaped and their tusks are straighter and point downward (the tusks of savanna elephants curve outwards). There are also differences in the ...

The findings were truly astonishing. It was the most complete fossil elephant skull from India that the researchers had ever seen, and it was massive: 1.37 m tall from the skull roof down to the ...

‘A caricature of an elephant’s head’ Prior to ... an evolutionary ‘go-between’ that links the skull structure of the founding African species to Eurasian forms with their elaborate ...

Closeup of a hyena cub that finds an antelope skull and plays with it. Evil Hyena Walking On Grassland In African Plain Of Ngorongoro Reservation Hyena walking on green grassland in Ngorongoro ...

DESCRIPTION: Forest elephants are the smaller of the two African elephant species. They also have straighter, thinner tusks, more rounded ears and differently shaped skulls. Both elephant species ...

African elephant mother with the elephant baby in the wild in the savannah in Africa. Image by ElenMarlen via Depositphotos. This discovery of the elephant skull highlights the continuous efforts of ...

Members of the species Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus greatly exceeded the size of modern African elephants ... general shape of the skull, it's quite apparent that the elephant belonged to ...