Imagine a world where you could have an elephant the size of a Shetland pony. Turns out, if you had been alive some hundreds of thousands of years ago, that might've been possible. Over a hundred ...

The remains of these elephants were first discovered in 2000 near the town of Pampore, but the identity of the fossils, cause of death and evidence of human intervention remained unknown until now.

We are using state-of-the-art techniques to study dwarf mammal fossils. This is giving us accurate dates for when dwarf elephants and dwarf deer lived on Mediterranean islands. We will then be able to ...

The discovery of 300,000 to 400,000-year-old elephant fossils and stone tools in India provides evidence of early human ...

Map of Cyprus showing the approximate position of fossil sites where dwarf elephants and hippos have been retrieved (map created by CJA Bradshaw) Map created by CJA Bradshaw, Flinders University.