Dwarf elephants are prehistoric members of the order Proboscidea which, through the process of allopatric speciation on islands, evolved much smaller...

Palaeoloxodon cypriotes is an extinct species of dwarf elephant that inhabited the island of Cyprus during the Late Pleistocene. The species became extinct...

of dwarf elephant from the Middle Pleistocene (around 500–200,000 years ago) of Sicily and Malta. It is amongst the smallest of all dwarf elephants at...

dwarf elephants, competition was an important factor in body size, with islands with competing herbivores having significantly larger dwarf elephants...

contrast, the genus also contains many species of dwarf elephants that evolved via insular dwarfism on islands in the Mediterranean, some only 1 metre...

Age, insular dwarf forms such as the Cyprus dwarf elephant, the pygmy elephant, the Naxos dwarf elephant and the Rhodes dwarf elephant survived longer...

insular dwarfism, some dramatically reducing in body size, such as the 1 metre (3.3 ft) tall dwarf elephant species Palaeoloxodon falconeri. Elephants are...

initially deposited. Cretan dwarf hippopotamus Maltese dwarf hippopotamus Sicilian dwarf hippopotamus Cyprus dwarf elephant Desmarest, A.G., 1822. Mammalogie...

Stegoloxodon is an extinct genus of dwarf elephant known from the Early Pleistocene of Indonesia. It contains two species, S. indonesicus from Java, and...

analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences. In July 2013, a dwarf Sri Lankan elephant was sighted in Udawalawe National Park. It was over 1.5 m (5 ft)...

evolved from the straight-tusked elephant. Other descendants of the straight-tusked elephant existed in Cyprus. Dwarf elephants of uncertain descent lived in...

Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis is an extinct species of dwarf elephant belonging to the genus Palaeoloxodon, native to the Siculo-Maltese archipelago during...

The Borneo elephant, also called the Bornean elephant or the Borneo pygmy elephant, is a subspecies of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) that inhabits northeastern...

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Elephas beyeri is an extinct species of dwarf elephant known from the Middle Pleistocene. It was named after the anthropologist H. Otley Beyer. The type...

humans, including Neanderthals. It is the ancestral species of most dwarf elephants that inhabited islands in the Mediterranean. Like many other members...

Pleistocene, alongside the dwarf hippopotamus Hippopotamus creutzburgi and the giant rat Kritimys. Dwarf elephant Mammuthus lamarmorai a dwarf mammoth species known...

extinct within the last 50,000 years. Ferretti, M.P. (May 2008). "The dwarf elephant Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis from Puntali Cave, Carini (Sicily; late Middle...

the common names Chinese taro, Chinese ape, Buddha's hand, and hooded dwarf elephant ear. It is kept as an ornamental plant. The native range of the species...

found at Għar Dalam, but lacking details such as stamp decorations. Dwarf elephant, hippopotamus, giant swan, deer and bear bone deposits found there are...

competition, as the only other large herbivore on the island was the dwarf elephant Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis. The majority of findings of this species...

Kallana (Malayalam: കല്ലാന) is a suspected species of dwarf elephants allegedly found in South India. Kaani tribals dwelling in the rainforests of the...

Channel Islands mammoth (Mammuthus exilis) is an extinct species of dwarf elephant native to the northern Channel Islands off the coast of California....

Englerarum montanum, the dwarf upright elephant ear or dwarf taro, is a species of flowering plant in the family Araceae. It is a perennial or subshrub...

assigned to this genus, Elephas recki, the straight-tusked elephant E. antiquus and the dwarf elephants E. falconeri and E. cypriotes are now placed in the separate...

Isotope Stage 4 (~71,000 years ago). Contemporaneous species include the dwarf elephant Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis, the aurochs, red deer, steppe bison, fallow...

(November 2017). "A new elephant fossil from the late Pleistocene of Alghero: The puzzling question of Sardinian dwarf elephants". Comptes Rendus Palevol...

making insular dwarfism the most common form of phyletic dwarfism. Examples of this are the Channel Island fox, extinct dwarf elephants of Crete, and Brookesia...

China) Palaeoloxodon huaihoensis (China) Dwarf elephant Palaeoloxodon creutzburgi (Crete) Cyprus dwarf elephant (Palaeoloxodon cypriotes) Palaeoloxodon...

Colocasia fallax, the silver leaf dwarf elephant ear or dwarf taro, is a species of flowering plant in the family Araceae, native to the Indian Subcontinent...