Tag Archives: Elephantidae

Meet Long Tusk

Posted on April 29, 2016 by twilightbeasts

Some of you may have been lucky enough to see these incredible animals in the wild. Others may have felt a strong tug at your heart seeing one in a zoo. Most, if not all, of us have seen these … Continue reading →

Posted in Deinotherium, Mastodon, Woolly Mammoth, Zygolophodon | Tagged African Bush Elephant, African Elephant, African Forest Elephant, Asian Elephant, Columbian Mammoth, Deinotherium, Elephant, Elephantidae, Elephas maximus indicus, Elephas maximus maximus, Elephas maximus sumatranus, Gomphotheridiiae, Gompothere, Jan Freedman, Loxodonta africana, Loxodonta cyclotis, Mammutidae, Pliocene, Proboscidea, Stegodon, Steppe Mammoth, Zygolophodon | 4 Comments

The first Mammoth of the Steppes

Posted on October 5, 2015 by twilightbeasts

Four men stood beneath the wooden frame of this enormous proboscidean. On the front left leg, the man slowly raises his own left leg, bringing up with it the leg of the beast. Slowly, the skeletal leg lifted from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Steppe Mammoth | Tagged Elephantidae, Homotherium latidens, Mammoth, Mammoth Steppe, Pleistocene, Southern Mammoth, Steppe rhinoceros | 10 Comments

Of dwarfs and dragons

Posted on July 21, 2014 by twilightbeasts

Stegodons were just one branch of the rather diverse probiscidean family tree (the family that includes elephants, mastodons, gomphotheres and mammoths). The stegodons, like the mammoths and elephants, are generally thought to have arisen in Africa, and ended up in Asia, … Continue reading →

Posted in Stegodon | Tagged Elephant, Elephantidae, Elephas celebensis, Flores, Gomphothere, Homo floresiensis, Komodo dragon, Mammoth, Mastodon, Proboscidea, Stegodon, Stegodon aurorae, Stegodon florensis insularis, Stegodon sondaari, Stegodon trigoncephalus, Stegologphodon | 4 Comments

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