From the colossal blue whale to the mighty elephant, nature’s largest animals amaze us with their sheer size, strength, and survival strategies. But why do we find massive creatures so fascinating?

Scientists have discovered a nearly complete skull of a Hyaenodonta, a hypercarnivore that that lived during the Oligocene ...

We are studying the evolution of elephants and their relatives in Africa and in Europe over the past 20 million years. The transition from eating mainly soft leaves of trees to coarser leaves of ...

As the largest land mammal on the planet, it is no secret that African elephants are massive animals. Reaching between 10 and ...

Focus: Studying the fossil origins of the Asian elephant, and the status of living subspecies such as the Borneo elephant. Museum researchers are studying the morphology of Borneo elephants, an ...