“Among the victims of a long ago era of climate change was the Stegodon Orientalis. It was a saber-toothed elephant that roamed Asia and Africa during the mid-Pleistocene Period. A complete skeleton of this long extinct species has been found in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality. Soon after the discovery last year, the remains proved to be the largest skeleton of the species ever found.” - CCTV International
“In the Wyoming badlands, an area of severe erosion, researchers have found fossils of an elephant shrew, which is in the same family as elephants, aardvarks and sea cows, said Jonathan Bloch, a paleontologist with UF?s Florida Museum of Natural History.” - The Independent Florida Alligator
“How the elephant got its ears has just become a more complicated story thanks to the discovery of a fossilised shrew-like animal that lived 115 million years ago.” - The New Zealand Herald
“Experts at a museum in northern China have identified what they believe is a fossilised tooth from an ancient elephant that lived four or five million years ago and is the largest of its kind ever uncovered in China.” - ABC AU
