Learn about the 430,000-year-old stone tools and techniques that allowed ancient humans to butcher elephant meat for a hefty ...

Learn more about the straight-tusked elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus, which disappeared from Europe between around 50,000 and 34,000 years ago.

The straight-tusked elephant, or Palaeoloxodon antiquus, was the reigning elephant ancestor of that time. It was much larger than the woolly mammoth and roughly twice as big as today’s African ...

Avi Levy, an archaeologist from Israel Antiquities Authority, works at the site where a 2.5-meter-long tusk from an ancient straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) was discovered, near ...

"This is the largest complete fossil tusk ever found at a prehistoric site in Israel or the Near East." Scientists say the straight-tusked elephant -- which was very large in size -- first ...

Even under today's climatic conditions, the long-extinct straight-tusked elephant could still live in Europe. This is the conclusion of a recent study. For this finding, the research group ...

The 2.5 metre-long tusk from the ancient straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) is estimated to be around half a million years old and was found in an area where stone and flint tools ...

A group of 25 foragers could thus eat a straight-tusked elephant for 3 months, 100 foragers could eat for a month, and 350 people could eat for a week,” wrote Starkovich, who was not involved in ...

Hunting the now extinct straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) was widespread among Neanderthals. This is the conclusion reached by a research team consisting of members of Johannes ...

Israeli Archaeologists Dig Up Large Tusk of Ancient Elephant The Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday that researchers found the 2.5-meter long fossil belonging to the long-extinct ...

Study author Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser, who is 160 centimeters (5 feet 2 inches) tall, stands next to a life-sized reconstruction of an adult male straight-tusked elephant in the Landesmuseum ...