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Why did the ancient elephant Deinotherium have inverted tusks?
Elephants have long been admired for their enormous size and unique appearance.
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Archeology
The largest salmon on Earth has tusks like a humped pig
The largest salmon species ever discovered, Oncorhynchus rastrosus, can use its tusk-like teeth to compete with rivals, defend itself from predators, and dig nests.
Archeology
Discovery of prehistoric elephant bones in Germany
Recently, a museum in Germany announced bone samples belonging to the extinct prehistoric elephant Deinotherium.
Oceanography
The narwhal possesses treasures more precious than gold
The narwhal is a medium-sized marine animal of the suborder toothed whales. What makes this animal most noticeable is the distinctive long horn on its head.
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A hybrid creature between 2 beasts 'hiding' on the seabed for 200,000 years
Scientists have found the remains of an ancient beast - a mysterious hybrid mammoth - in an unexpected place... in the deep sea.
Archeology
Discovered mammoth tusks buried for nearly 3 million years on the seabed
Researchers discovered a tusk from a mammoth carcass that drifted and fell more than 3,000 meters below the Pacific Ocean.
Animal world
Are animals still evolving?
Humans and animals are evolving incessantly - abandoning features that are less favorable to the features that maximize survival.
Oceanography
Discovered strange fish in Indonesia
A mysterious fish with long and pointed tusks has just been discovered on the Indonesian coast of Borneo.
Archeology
12,000 years ago, two fighting mammoths came to wrap their tusks together, then died of starvation
Ironically, two enemies died in entwined posture, face to face during the 120th century.
Archeology
Discover 400,000 years of mammoth tusks in Siberia
A Siberian resident (Russia) while digging a vegetable garden in his home garden excavated the ancient mammoth tusks dating back about 400,000 years.
Archeology
Mexico discovered ivory 10,000 years before BC
Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said a group of archaeological experts discovered a mammoth ivory that was nearly 3m long, over 10,000 yea…
Archeology
Discover rare and precious southern mammoth bones
A newly discovered rare southern mammoth skeleton in the Tersk region of the Kabardino-Balkaria Autonomous Republic (Russia).
Archeology
Build houses with mammoth bones
This is a circular house, made up of 116 large bones including skull, jaw, 14 tusks and elephant leg bones. Inside with at least 25 furnaces filled with ash shows that i…
Archeology
Detected giant ivory over 2 million years old
Archaeologists have found in northern Greece two giant tusks of prehistoric mammoths in Europe, more than 2 million years ago. This may be the most important finding of…