The elephant was still alive when the forest officials reached the spot. But before they could draw up a rescue plan, the ...
About 400,000 years ago, early humans in Europe, Asia and Africa lived alongside giant straight-tusked elephants, far bigger ...
"From the general shape of the skull, it's quite apparent that the elephant belonged to Palaeoloxodon, or straight-tusked elephants, among the largest land mammals that ever lived," said Dr ...
Over the next hundreds of thousands of years, their remains were buried in sediment ... which included a skull and tusks, ...
The findings were truly astonishing. It was the most complete fossil elephant skull from India that the researchers had ever seen, and it was massive: 1.37 m tall from the skull roof down to the ...