It also illustrates how they might have quickly brought about the demise of the tiny hippopotamus Phanourios minor, as well as the dwarf elephant Palaeoloxodon cypriotes. Cyprus wasn't the only ...

Cyprus only had two species of megafauna present during the Late Pleistocene -- the 500-kg dwarf elephant (Palaeoloxodon cypriotes), and the 130-kg dwarf hippo (Phanourios minor), but both species ...

For instance, species limited to islands, such as the Sicilian dwarf elephant, Palaeoloxodon falconeri, were much more likely to go extinct. Changes in the climate, which some think was the main ...

The couple has three children, Jackson, Lilah and Josiah, that were born with achondroplasia, the most common form of short-limbed dwarfism Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE.