ivory poaching acted as a potent evolutionary pressure that saw a dramatic rise of female African elephants born without ...

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 ...

The exact environmental and biological pressures that led to the evolution of these trunks ... their skulls seemed to more closely resemble modern elephants, suggesting their trunks were capable ...

Evolution is perforce a veiled process. Although its imprint on the genome can be traced with modern genetic tools ... Thus, I submit that it constitutes the 'elephant in the bathtub', whose ...

It certainly did in 1976, when paleoanthropologist Andrew Hill and a colleague were tossing elephant dung at each ... hardly distinguishable from those of modern humans. The only known hominid ...

The Elephant Fayre attracted 30,000 people in 1983, but was shut down a few years later after looting, violence and heavy drug use. It returned as the Port Eliot Literary Festival in the 2000s A ...