If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

Learn more about the straight-tusked elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus, which disappeared from Europe between around 50,000 and ...

Even under today's climatic conditions, the long-extinct straight-tusked elephant could still live in Europe. This is the conclusion of a recent study. For this finding, the research group combined ...

The bone from an extinct straight-tusked elephant is thought to be 20,000-40,000 years old. Judges ruled a bid to free five elderly African elephants from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo was based on a law ...

The bone from a palaeoloxodon - an extinct animal also known as a straight-tusked elephant which is believed ... Straight-tusked elephants were four metres high, bigger than woolly mammoths ...

Elephants are among the largest land mammals ... Europe, too, had an elephant: the straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) lived on our continent for around 700,000 years.