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 ...

Scientists have linked a fossilized elephant skull from Kashmir with another from Turkmenistan, identifying them as a distinct species of Palaeoloxodon. These findings could fill gaps in the ...

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 ...

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.