Their unusually shaped feet are quite similar to that of ungulates, and fossil evidence suggests that there once existed a larger diversity of elephant species whose body structure puts them in ...

Species behaviour has the potential to lead morphological evolution, by placing the organism under novel selection pressures. Many adaptations of living species could have originated in this way, ...

Focus: Studying the fossil ... elephant Elephas maximus. The elephants of north-east Borneo present an interesting case. Genetically distinct from all other living populations, they may have been ...

Few subjects in evolutionary theory have posed such intriguing puzzles for so long as the origin of birds. Evidence of avian beginnings has been elusive in the fossil record because birds' light ...

About 30 million years ago, parts of Egypt were covered in lush forests. Within those trees, lurked an order of fearsome big ...