Adrienne Mayor, in The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology In Greek and Roman Times, has suggested that Deinothere fossils found in Greece helped generate myths of archaic giant beings.

• 下颌有一对大象牙，从颌前端向下弯曲，然后向后弯向身躯，很像是一对固定在下巴上的巨钩。