As expected of such a huge elephant, Palaeoloxodon had a huge skull. Hugh Falconer, a geologist, likened its head to a “caricature of an elephant’s head in a periwig.” The skull also featured a ...

A small elephant approached a waterhole in the Sabi Sand Nature Reserve in South Africa and got too close to a lapwing. But the tiny bird suddenly became very territorial with the curious calf.

So long are the tongues of all three native woodpeckers that they are wrapped around the inside of the birds’ skulls when not in use • Great spotted woodpeckers use ‘anvils’ in trees to wedge pine ...

These actions shed some light on the dynamics between these photogenic Arctic mammals and the fish and birds that live alongside them.One of these dynamics came in the form of a kleptoparasitism ...

(CNN) — A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

(CNN) — A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today, a new ...

The animal kingdom is a pretty wild place, and history is full of stories of creatures that western scientists didn’t believe ...

The elephant’s trunk is one of the most efficient food-gathering organs in the animal kingdom. From large branches to thin blades of grass, it can coil around and bring many types of vegetation to the ...

Visitors can look at the earliest lemurs and monkeys, elephant birds, mini hippos, and other species from Madagascar, South America, Africa and North America. “The exhibit is the story of primates, ...

On the other hand, elephant tusks do not regrow after being removed because they are embedded inside the elephant’s skull and have a nerve running down its middle. Upon cutting the tusks and exposing ...

The independent movements and flexibility of various parts of the skull, called cranial kinesis, are an evolutionary innovation that is found in living vertebrates only in some squamates and crown ...