A new analysis of this 400,000-year-old skull fills in missing branches on the elephant evolutionary tree.

Since 1989, the international commercial trade of ivory has been banned in an effort to rebuild the dwindling population of ...

UC Santa Barbara anthropologist Amy Boddy and her collaborators are working to gain insight on this and other cancer ...

During the late middle Pleistocene, between 300 and 400 thousand years ago, at least three ancient elephant relatives died ...

A new study provides the first scientific evidence that elephants can remember the scent of their keepers even after a long ...

The giant fossil skull of an extinct elephant, discovered in northern India’s Kashmir Valley in 2000, sheds light on a poorly ...

Rare extinct elephant fossils in India reveal the earliest known evidence of butchery, shedding light on ancient human survival strategies.

Over two decades ago, a team from the University of Jammu uncovered the giant fossilized skull of an extinct elephant species in India’s Kashmir Valley. The remains were uncovered along with 87 ...

The remains of these elephants were first discovered in 2000 ... Its mix of features from older and more recent hominin species indicate the Indian subcontinent must have played an important ...

The giant fossil skull of an extinct elephant, discovered in northern India's Kashmir Valley in 2000, sheds light on a poorly known episode in elephant evolutionary history. The elephant skull was ...

Fossil found in Kashmir valley quarter century ago could represent missing link in elephant evolution, researchers say ...

Erustus Kanga, director-general of Kenya Wildlife Service, emphasized the importance of elephants as a keystone species in ...