A breakthrough fossil discovery in northern India is changing what we know about some of the largest mammals to ever walk the Earth. As well as filling in gaps in the evolution of the straight-tusked ...

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.

Ancient India's land ethic—reflected in Kautilya’s Arthashastra—balanced military, economic, and religious priorities to preserve vast elephant habitats, a legacy lost in China’s agrarian ...

Elephants have been a powerful symbol of wealth and power since ancient times. But how did the symbolic meanings of elephants ...

Ancient Hominins Ate Giant Elephant, Earliest Evidence Of Animal Butchery In India Reveals Palaeoloxodon would have been twice the size of today's African elephant species.

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Evolutionary scientists have uncovered evidence that Indian elephants experienced a significant population bottleneck nearly 2,000 years ago, lasting ...

During the late middle Pleistocene, between 300 and 400 thousand years ago, at least three ancient elephant relatives died near a river in the Kashmir Valley of South Asia. Not long after, they ...

The remains were uncovered along with 87 basalt stone tools used by prehistoric humans. According to a new analysis, the skull belongs to a mysterious type of elephant called Palaeoloxodon.

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.