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2003年2月5日 — Skulls of Deinotherium giganteum found at other sites show it to be more primitive, and the bulk a lot more vast, than today's elephant, with an ... Read More

Synopsis: Fossil dwarf elephant skeletons from Italy and Greece with skulls twice ... As they happily filled their bellies, the maneating Cyclops Polyphemus came ... Read More

TIL: It has been theorised that the myth of the Cyclops came about when Greeks discovered dwarf elephant skulls and misinterpreted the trunk cavity as a single ... Read More

A first century AD head of a Cyclops from the Roman Colosseum. In Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, the Cyclopes (/saɪˈkloʊpiːz/ sy-KLOH-​peez ... Abel proposed that fossil skulls of Pleistocene dwarf elephants, commonly ... Read More

Dwarf elephants are prehistoric members of the order Proboscidea which, through the process of allopatric speciation on islands, evolved much smaller body ... Read More

2017年7月18日 — Cyclops and Dragon Tongues: How Real Fossils Inspired Giant Myths ... dwarf-​elephant species, not from a one-eyed giant called cyclops. Read More

2019年11月14日 — The Cyclops in Greek mythology is actually an ancient dwarf elephant! In Greek mythology, there is a group of giants with one eye on their ... Read More

There is evidence that fossil elephant skulls (prehistoric dwarf elephants were found on Cyprus, Crete, Malta and Sicily) were known in ancient Greece and ... Read More

2015年1月27日 — A possible origin for the Cyclops legend, advanced by the paleontologist Othenio Abel in 1914, is the prehistoric dwarf elephant skulls – about ... Read More