For reference, African elephants, the largest land mammals that currently walk the Earth, weigh between 12,000 and 15,000 ...

These ancient relatives of modern-day elephants appeared roughly 5 million ... Origins of the Columbian mammoth Scientists used to believe that the Columbian mammoths evolved from the Eurasian ...

After an intense study of the mammoth's genetic ... (Mammuthus trogontherii) and Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi). They also studied the genome of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus), for ...