The ancient elephants lived about 10 million years ago and likely belong to the extinct species Deinotherium giganteum, named for its massive size, officials said.

9. Deinotherium Giganteum When I look at deinotherium, I like to imagine that it existed at a special point of divergence on the evolutionary timeline; half of them went on to become elephants ...

Deinotherium giganteum. Image credit: Durji, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. With downward-pointing tusks and a long lower jaw, it made for a peculiar-looking, elephant-like creature, and in ...

Named the Deinotherium giganteum - meaning 'terrible beast' in Greek - the animal would have lived in the Moldova plateau, which spreads across northeastern Romania, most of Moldova and parts of ...