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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

KIBBUTZ REVADIM, Israel (AP) — Israeli archaeologists recently unearthed the titanic tusk of a prehistoric elephant near a kibbutz in southern Israel, a remnant of a behemoth once hunted by ...

Adult male straight-tusked elephants could weigh up to 13 metric tons (over 28,000 pounds), which is roughly twice as large as modern-day adult male African elephants. Researchers estimate that the ...

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 ...