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
Palaeoloxodon falconeri
Reconstruction
Illustration, with human and Cygnus falconeri for scale
Skeletons in Milan Natural History Museum
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
…Palaeoloxodon falconeri is an extinct species of dwarf elephant that lived during the Middle Pleistocene (sometime between around 500–200,000 years ago) on the Mediterranean islands of Sicily and Malta. It is amongst…
Palaeoloxodon falconeri skeleton cast