Research links the rapid extinction of dwarf megafauna on Cyprus to early human settlers, whose hunting practices decimated ...

Scientists have unraveled a mystery about the disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the picturesque ...

Thousands of years before a tiny pygmy hippopotamus from a zoo in Thailand named Moo Dang became an internet sensation, an extinct species of dwarf hippos (Phanourios minor) roamed a lush ...

Scientists have unravelled a mystery about the disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the picturesque landscape on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus before palaeolithic humans ...

The Mediterranean nation was once home to the 500kg dwarf elephant and the 130kg dwarf hippo but both disappeared within a ...

Scientists have unravelled a mystery about the disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the picturesque ...

Credit: Remains of dwarf elephants (Palaeoloxodon cypriotes), including radius/ulna (1, 2), canines (3, 4), molars (5, 6, 7), ...

Pig-sized hippos and elephants the size of horses once roamed the lush forests of Cyprus – until humans arrived.

在格罗贝恩发现的古菱齿象（Palaeoloxodon antiquus）的盆骨。资料来源：LEIZA Lutz Kindler 两年前，同一个研究小组在分析位于萨克森-安哈尔特州一个旧 ...

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Cyprus wasnt the only Mediterranean island with dwarf wildlife. In fact, Crete, Malta, Sicily, Sardinia and many other ...

The team also found the mandibles, and a femur fragment, of straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon antiquus), alongside a wealth of fossils, including those of aurochs, red deer, woolly ...