Archaeologists uncover clues to the lives of giant elephants and early humans who shared Israel’s Hula Valley nearly 800,000 years ago.

The fossils belonged to Palaeoloxodon antiquus, the straight-tusked elephant, one of the largest land mammals of the Pleistocene. Nearby basalt handaxes and cleavers place early humans in the same ...

About 400,000 years ago, early humans in Europe, Asia and Africa lived alongside giant straight-tusked elephants, far bigger than their modern-day cousins. Their evolution has long been a mystery to ...

The giant fossil skull of an extinct elephant, discovered in northern India's Kashmir Valley in 2000, sheds light on a poorly known episode in elephant evolutionary history. The elephant skull was ...

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Madagascar’s extinct elephant birds – the largest birds ever to have lived – have captured public interest for hundreds of years. Little is known about them due to large gaps in the skeletal fossil ...

Three new papers describe Notiomastodon, an elephant relative that's long been in the shadow of its more famous cousin, the woolly mammoth. Reading time 7 minutes Its tusks were thick and relatively ...

Two wild elephants were caught in a fierce fight near Jagaboranahalli village in Belur taluk. The incident frightened local ...

The post This Elephant Turned a Tree Branch into a Giant Q-Tip appeared first on A-Z Animals. Elephants are widely considered some of the smartest animals on the planet. They are highly social within ...