Palaeoloxodon falconeri (also known as Elephas falconeri, or more commonly as the Pygmy Elephant) is an extinct Siculo-Maltese species of elephant closely related to the modern Asian elephant. In 1867, George Busk had proposed the species Elephas falconeri for many of the smallest molars selected from the material originally ascribed by Hugh Falconer to Palaeoloxodon melitensis.This island-bound elephant was an example of insular dwarfism, with an adult male specimen MPUR/V n1 measured 96.5 centimetres (3 ft 2.0 in) in shoulder height and weighed about 305 kilograms (672 lb), and an adult female specimen MPUR/V n2 measured 80 centimetres (2 ft 7.5 in) in shoulder height and weighed about 168 kilograms (370 lb). P. falconeri's ancestors most likely reached the Mediterranean islands during t