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 term de-extinction is inaccurate, but conservation is still the best way to achieve its stated goals. We need to save the ...

Woolly mammoths may have gone extinct over 10,000 years ago, yet a delegation from Israel hope to next week have the beast declared endangered — in an effort to protect elephants.

Africa is the only continent to maintain lots of large herbivores, including rhinos, elephants, hippos, giraffes and buffalo. However, even on the continent where we evolved, losses occurred. Gone is ...

The bone from an extinct straight-tusked elephant is thought to be 20,000-40,000 years old.

The Pleistocene epoch lasted from about 200,000 to 11,700 years ago, during which large mammals roamed India. The elephant found in Chandrapur district was approximately 15 feet in height.

More than a million years ago, a prehistoric “quicksand trap” caused numerous elephants to perish. A team of researchers from institutions in Spain was studying an archaeological site called Fuenta ...