A fossilized elephant skull discovered in northern India’s Kashmir Valley offers a rare glimpse into the evolutionary history of one of Earth’s most impressive megafauna. This remarkable find ...

Mysterious elephant species uncovered with 87 prehistoric stone tools A new analysis of this 400,000-year-old skull fills in missing branches on the elephant evolutionary tree. By Laura Baisas ...

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 study indicates that this natural quicksand trapped large prehistoric herbivores—including the extinct elephant species, Mammuthus meridionalis—because of the significant weight per unit ...

A fossilized elephant skull found in the Kashmir Valley is reshaping how scientists understand an ancient giant’s past. Discovered in 2000 from the Karewa sediments near Pampore, the skull ...

The stone tools were likely made by a species of human different from us, and the whole site probably dates to around 300,000-400,000 years ago, a time known as the Middle Pleistocene.

But sometimes prehistoric elephants shrunk down according to their surroundings. While some species of the fossil elephant Stegodon could get to be over 12 feet tall at the shoulder and weigh ...

An elephant not seen in several years was recently captured on camera strolling through a national park in Senegal. This ...

The elephant skull was buried with 87 stone tools used by prehistoric humans, and all the materials were excavated in late 2000 under the leadership of Dr Ghulam Bhat at the University of Jammu..

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.