Elephants

Within the charcoal, archaeologists found traces of ash, willow, oak, olive, pistachio, grapevine, oleander, and the oldest known evidence of pomegranate wood in the Levant.

New findings show that they systematically managed resources and reveal what they hunted, something even scientists did not expect.

The finding represents the first elephant skeletal remains found to possibly confirm Hannibal’s historical march from Carthage to Italy during the Second Punic War.

The species of elephant, important in helping rainforests to regenerate, is notoriously hard to assess since they are spread across remote, dense jungles in 22 African countries.

Volcanic ash deposits above and below the bones at Casal Lumbroso date the carcass to around 404,000 years ago, during a warm Middle Pleistocene phase.

New genetic evidence uncovers repeated waves of dispersal and surprising diversity among North America’s Ice Age giants.

“This year we can talk about the year of the elephant. From 2018 until now, we had identified two skulls, but only this year did we find three” described an archeologist.

For years there was no sign of it, but a new photo reveals: It might not be too late to save a species of elephant once thought to be a legend.

Meat from the cull will be distributed to local people to eat, while the ivory from the killed animals will be handed over to the parks authority.

Along with the fossils, paleolithic tools were also found at the site, indicating that early humans lived with these giant elephants and perhaps hunted them.