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Ten Exceptional Ancient Elephants, From Small Swimming Creatures to Shovel-Tusked Beasts
Not so long ago, the trumpeting of elephants could be heard across a great deal of our planet. Wrinkly-skinned giants did not ...
Deer hunter stumbles across 'stump' that turns out to be super rare mammoth tusk
A hunter in West Texas was searching for some deer. Instead, he uncovered a rare fossil from a prehistoric species.
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Fossil bird collection
The Museum’s specimen of Archaeopteryx lithographica originates from the latest Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone in Bavaria, Germany. It was among more than 1,900 Solnhofen fossils bought from Dr Karl ...
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Evolution and taxonomy of Asian elephants
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 ...