A small population of just 3,000 people may have caused dwarf hippos and dwarf elephants in the island of Cyprus to become extinct some 14,000 years ago, scientists believe. The Mediterranean ...

A teaspoonful of their matter would weigh as much on Earth as an elephant—5.5 tons ... greatly outshines its white dwarf companion, Sirius B. At 8.6 light-years away, Sirius B is the nearest ...

We are studying the effect of dramatic environmental changes over the last 800,000 years on the origin and diversification of dwarf elephants and dwarf deer. This work forms a natural experiment in ...

The study found that tall genotypes like IRI 381 and Elephant B generally performed better under irrigation compared to dwarf varieties like Mott and Taiwan A-146 2.37, which showed lower growth ...