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

An international research team has published a new study on one of the oldest known sites for the processing of animal meat ...

Elephants are playing important roles in the country’s civil war, but the conflict casts a dark shadow over their future.

A new forensic test could help identify poached elephant ivory being disguised and smuggled as legal mammoth tusks.

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Europe isn’t known for its elephants. At least, the three species of elephant that traverse Earth today — the African elephants Loxodonta africana and Loxodonta cyclotis and the Asian elephant Elephas ...

April 28, 2025 Source: Pensoft Publishers Summary: Even under today's climatic conditions, the long-extinct straight-tusked elephant could still live in Europe. This is the conclusion of a recent ...

The bone from an extinct straight-tusked elephant is thought to be 20,000-40,000 years old.

An ancient animal bone discovered in a quarry about 20 years ago has been donated to a museum. The bone from a palaeoloxodon - an extinct animal also known as a straight-tusked elephant which is ...

At the center of the breakthrough is the Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus, an extinct species of straight-tusked elephant. Weighing up to 13 tons, it was among the largest animals to ever roam the Earth.

An ancient elephant graveyard is finally giving up its secrets. Remains of straight-tusked elephants known as Palaeoloxodon were first uncovered near the town of Pampore, in the Kashmir Valley, when a ...

A 24-year-old elephant skull found in Kashmir has been identified as belonging to the extinct 'straight-tusked' Palaeoloxodon species, a rare discovery linked to Turkmenistan.