A tiny ancient elephant that roamed Sicily 200,000 years ago had babies the size of pet dogs

• Scientists discovered this ancient elephant fossil on the island of Sicily.
• They said the elephant shrunk rapidly over a million years because of the constraints of the island.
• The tiny elephant, and its baby, are on display as models at the American Museum of Natural History. 

Imagine a world where you could have an elephant the size of a Shetland pony. Turns out, if you had been alive some hundreds of thousands of years ago, that might've been possible.