Asia and Africa lived alongside giant straight-tusked elephants, far bigger than their modern-day cousins. Their evolution has long been a mystery to paleontologists, but an extraordinary, enormous ...

Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus greatly exceeded the size of modern African elephants. Adults grew to around four meters tall at ...

This remarkable specimen was excavated, alongside 87 prehistoric stone tools ... What kind of elephant died there? And did this giant meet its end at the hands of early humans?

And did this giant meet its end at the hands of early ... fossil skull from Kashmir Valley in 2019, belonging to the extinct elephant Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus. Author provided (no reuse) Our ...

New discoveries from several archaeological sites in North and South America suggest that ancient people first arrived in the New World much earlier than scientists once thought.