Elephants and their forebears were pushed into wipeout by waves of extreme global environmental change, rather than overhunting by early humans, according to new research. The study, published today ...

Decades of heavy poaching led to the evolution of tuskless elephants in a part of Africa , scientists have found. Tusklessness became more common in the female elephants of Mozambique's Gorongosa ...

Human culture and language may be the result of ‘self-domestication’: an evolutionary process that leads to less aggressive and more prosocial individuals. A research team led by the Max Planck ...

Prehistoric elephants were pushed to extinction by extreme global environmental change rather than being over-hunted by early humans, according to a study. The research indicates that the extinction ...

Doctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland and a Palaeontologist, Department of Earth Sciences at NMK, Pauline Mbatha at the National Museums of Kenya Experts studying the evolutionary ...

Genetic research has raised the possibility that the two classic forms of elephant in Africa are separate species rather than subspecies of Loxodonta africana. Museum research has uncovered ...

Centromeres act as the control centers of chromosomes, ensuring accurate genetic inheritance during cell division, yet they ...

Image: Professor Joshua Schiffman pictured with an elephant. Credit: University of Utah Darwinian evolution has influenced and inspired the rapidly growing field of evolutionary medicine that uses ...

Imagine a creature nearly twice the size of a modern African elephant, which can weigh up to 6,000 kg. This was Elephas ...