Dwarf elephant
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Dwarf elephants are prehistoric members of the order Proboscidea which, through the process of allopatric speciation on islands, evolved much smaller body sizes in comparison with their immediate ance
Palaeoloxodon falconeri skeleton cast
Palaeoloxodon falconeri
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Palaeoloxodon falconeri is an extinct species of dwarf elephant that lived during the Middle Pleistocene on the Mediterranean islands of Sicily and Malta. It is amongst the smallest of all dwarf eleph
Dwarf elephant
…successive waves of dwarf elephants derived from P. antiquus, which first arrived on the islands at least 500,000 years ago. The first of these species is P. falconeri , which is one of the smallest dwarf elephant species at around 1 metre (3.3 ft) tall, and was strongly modified from its ancestor in numerous aspects…
Palaeoloxodon falconeri
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Illustration, with human and Cygnus falconeri for scale
Skeletons in Milan Natural History Museum