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The tops of elephant bird skulls display punctuated marks, which may have been attachment sites for fleshy structures or head feathers. [18] Mullerornis is the smallest of the elephant birds, with a body mass of around 80 kilograms (180 lb), [16] with its skeleton much less robustly built than Aepyornis. [19]
Like the cassowaries, ostriches, rheas, emu and kiwis, the Elephant bird was a ratite; it could not fly, and its breast bone had no keel. Because Madagascar and Africa separated before the ratite lineage arose, [7] Aepyornis and other elephant birds are thought to have dispersed and become flightless and gigantic in situ. [8]
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Deinotherium is an extinct genus of large, elephant-like proboscideans that lived from about the middle-Miocene until the early Pleistocene.Although its appearance is reminiscent of modern elephants, Deinotherium possessed a notably more flexible neck, with limbs adapted to a more cursorial lifestyle, as well as tusks which grew down and curved back from the mandible, as opposed to the forward ...
Palaeoloxodon falconeri derives from the 4 metre tall straight-tusked elephant (P. antiquus), which arrived in Europe approximately 800,000 years ago.The oldest radiometrically dated fossils of Palaeoloxodon on Sicily date to around 500,000 years ago, with the colonisation possibly occurring as early as 690,000 years ago or earlier.
Like other elephant birds and its kiwi relatives, Mullerornis probably was nocturnal based on the small size of its optic lobes, though it shows less optical lobe reduction than these other taxa, implying slightly more crepuscular habits.
Lesser elephant bird: Mullerornis modestus: Central and southern Madagascar Hunting, aridification, [111] and deforestation. [137] 687-880: Malagasy pygmy hippopotamus: Hippopotamus madagascariensis: Northwestern and central Madagascar [139] Deforestation, [137] hunting, competition with, and changes to vegetation caused by livestock. [111] 700 ...