As with all life forms, elephants have evolved over time from ungulates to near ungulates or subungulates as they are called today. Their unusually shaped feet are quite similar to that of ungulates, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration showing an imposing fully-grown male Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus wandering India’a Kashmir Valley, 400,000 years ago ...

For zoologists it has, if you excuse the pun, long been the elephant in the room. While the text books insist there are just two species of elephant in the world – the long-eared African and the ...