The elephant skeleton is partially surrounded by 34 hyena coprolites and 17 stone flakes left behind by humans.© Palmqvist et al., Journal of Iberian Geology 2024 ...

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 ...

The bones of a prehistoric elephant have been unearthed in a cliff face after they were exposed in a storm. The remains were spotted by amateur palaeontologist John Clayden at West Runton, near ...

The prehistoric elephant is believed to have been submerged in quicksand shortly after dying on a riverbed in Java around 200,000 years ago. Its bones — almost perfectly preserved — were discovered by ...

Eurasia and Africa were once populated by 13-tonne, 4 metre tall elephants, but their evolution has long remained a puzzle. A giant fossil skull from Kashmir paves way to unlocking their mysteries.

The larger elephant, Big Alex, was over 13 feet tall at shoulder height and not fully grown when it died, the museum said. The animal’s skeleton included the skull found in the pit in 2004.

Millions of years after they roamed prehistoric Alberta, this horn-faced runt continues to live in his celebrity cousin's shadow. Though their anatomy might suggest otherwise, the Leptoceratops ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence of what appears to be a prehistoric "quicksand trap" that caused the demise of elephants more than a million years ago. In a study published in the Journal of ...

An Israeli archaeologist works next to the recently discovered 2.5-meter-long tusk of an estimated 500,000-year-old straight-tusked elephant, near the city of Gedera, Israel, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022.

The bones of a prehistoric elephant have been unearthed in a cliff face after they were exposed in a storm. The remains were spotted by amateur palaeontologist John Clayden at West Runton, near ...