The second cool extinct species of elephant is commonly called the pygmy elephant. This is an appropriate nickname for ...

Thousands of years before a tiny pygmy hippopotamus from a zoo in ... may have first driven the hippos and then the elephants to extinction in less than 1,000 years. This new hypothesis refutes ...

KOTA KINABALU: A juvenile male pygmy elephant was found dead near an abandoned logging camp outside the Kuamut Forest Reserve in east coast Kinabatangan district. The elephant is believed to be ...

that classifies a distinct subspecies of elephants living on the island of Borneo as endangered. IUCN’s announcement last monthconfirms that the Borneo pygmy elephants, the world’s smallest elephants, ...

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Moo Deng -- whose name in Thai means "bouncy pork", a popular snack -- is now an unwitting poster child for the endangered pygmy hippo. The fame has not gone to Moo Deng's head, as she sticks ...

Even though these animals are long extinct, we can draw some conclusions ... species still living today, such as the pygmy hippo and the African elephant, to estimate how fast they would have ...

Moo Deng - whose name in Thai means a popular snack - is now an unwitting poster child for the endangered pygmy hippo. Visitors look at Moo Deng, a two-month-old female pygmy hippo who has ...

25, 2024 — Scientists discovered that ancient reef-building stromatoporoids survived the Late Devonian extinction ... disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the picturesque ...

The pygmy hog (Porcula salvania) is the world's smallest and rarest wild pig, most threatened by extinction.

Pygmy hippos are now classified as endangered, the alliance said, with possibly less than 3,000 individuals remaining in their native habitat. Moo Deng's internet-fame has also translated into ...