A team of Pakistani researchers claims to have unearthed a 1.1 million-year-old stegodon tusk in the central province of Punjab, potentially shedding new light on the mammal’s evolutionary journey.

Google Scholar van den Bergh, G. D. et al. Taphonomy of Stegodon florensis remains from the early Middle Pleistocene archaeological site Mata Menge, Flores, Indonesia.

Stegodon fossil found in China dating back as far as 11 million years. 幽灵巴尼/CC The first stegodons – ancestors of modern-day elephants – originated in China, not Africa, fossils ...

Archeologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a prehistoric relative of modern elephants in southwest China's Yunnan Province, they announced on Tuesday. The fossil of the stegodon ...