WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A dwarf elephant the size of a Shetland pony once roamed the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. In the West Indies, a giant rat-like rodent tipped the scales at more than 400 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cyprus was home to only these two species of megafauna during the Late Pleistocene. The dwarf elephant was roughly 1,000 pounds, ...

Scientists have unravelled a mystery about the disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the picturesque landscape on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus before palaeolithic humans ...

A new study has uncovered the likely cause behind the mysterious disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Researchers have concluded that ...

A small population of just 3,000 people may have caused dwarf hippos and dwarf elephants in the island of Cyprus to become extinct some 14,000 years ago, scientists believe. The Mediterranean nation ...

Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Node Leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University Corey J. A. Bradshaw receives ...

A new show on "The Secret World of Elephants" at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City dishes on the evolution and remarkable lives of these huge (and sometimes dwarf) pachyderms.

Scientists discovered this ancient elephant fossil on the island of Sicily. They said the elephant shrunk rapidly over a million years because of the constraints of the island. The tiny elephant, and ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Thousands of years before a tiny pygmy hippopotamus from a zoo in ...