an interesting population that is genetically distinct from all other living elephant populations. In collaboration with colleagues in the UK, Israel and elsewhere, we have investigated the ...

We are studying the evolution of elephants and their relatives in Africa and in Europe over the past 20 million years. The transition from eating mainly soft leaves of trees to coarser leaves of ...

These gentle giants' evolutionary story and its parallels with that of humankind has long fascinated Dr Tori Herridge, a ...

As the largest land mammal on the planet, it is no secret that African elephants are massive animals. Reaching between 10 and ...