Read More: Neanderthals Hunted and Ate Straight-Tusked Elephants Current potential distribution of the straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) in Europe. The coloring represents the ...

Hunting the now extinct straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon ... hunting of these elephants by Neanderthals was not an isolated phenomenon but must have been a more regular activity ...

Even under today's climatic conditions, the long-extinct straight ... of the straight-tusked elephant. A comparison with modern climate data suggests that straight-tusked elephants would still ...

(Credit: Lutz Kindler, LEIZA) Professor Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser standing next to a life-size reconstruction of an adult male European straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) in the ...

The findings suggest Neanderthals made deep cut marks on the foot bones of straight-tusked elephants to access ... archaeologists recovered 3,122 elephant remains at Neumark-Nord 1, a site near ...

Some 125,000 years ago, enormous elephants that weighed as much ... Stone tools have been found in northern Europe with other straight-tusked elephant remains that had some cut marks.

A study of butchered bones from 125,000 years ago offers what researchers call “the first clear-cut evidence of elephant-hunting ... from more than 70 straight-tusked elephants — some ...

An elephant skull discovered in Kashmir ... species previously unknown to researchers. Typically, elephants have curved tusks, but the straight-tusked Palaeoloxodon, which lived in Europe and ...

Straight-tusked elephant reconstruction in the Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon, September 9, 2017. The discovery of a complete tusk of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) near ...

Recreating their range and reconstructing their habitats, the new study finds that the current climate conditions of Europe could still suit the straight-tusked elephant, that is, if these elephants ...