An imposing fully-grown male Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus wandering the Kashmir Valley, 400 thousand years ago, towering over a herd of Central Asian red deer traversing by. In the distance, a small band ...

A giant fossil skull found in India’s Kashmir valley decades ago belongs to an unknown “straight-tusked” extinct elephant species, scientists say. The skull, along with nearly 90 stone tools used by ...

At Rome’s Casal Lumbroso site, humans 400,000 years ago turned a dead elephant into food and tools—proof of astonishing ...

400,000 years ago, early humans in Europe, Asia and Africa lived alongside giant straight-tusked elephants, far bigger than their modern-day cousins. Their evolution has long been a mystery to ...

The Department of Museums Malaysia (JMM) has applied to the National Heritage Department to assess a 130-year-old bull elephant skull specimen and a Perak State Railway carriage. Its deputy ...

THE first-ever fossil skull of a Stegodon — an extinct relative of modern elephants — was discovered by a local in Solana, ...

An elephant skull discovered in Kashmir 24 years ago has been identified as belonging to the extinct "straight-tusked" Palaeoloxodon species, one of the largest elephant species ever to roam the Earth ...

Jerry Snapp had a hard time parting with the 200-pound, 4-foot tall elephant skull. In 1997, he bought it from a rendering plant in Vernon, hauled it to his Riverside home, unleased beetles on the ...

A clumsy antelope managed to get a giant elephant skull stuck on its antlers after practising rutting against it. Retired ecologist Andrew Schofield and his wife Simone, both 64, were visiting South ...

When Antonia Gradillas and his friends set off for a hike in New Mexico to celebrate a friend’s upcoming wedding they were probably expecting a certain amount of craziness – but certainly not the ...

48.5 x 35.5 cm. (19.1 x 14 in.) Elephant Skull is an etching from 1969 in Henry Moore's classic print style. Moore was fascinated by an elephant skull that his friends kept as a sculpture in their ...