Three elephant skulls dating back 7.7 million years have been discovered in excavations in Kayseri, central Türkiye. The digs, launched in 2018 following a report from a local goat herder in 2017 near ...

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 ...

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 remained a ...

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 ...

Signs of bone breakage in extinct giant elephants, likely caused by repeated blows from stone tools, could be the earliest evidence of animal butchery in India, palaeontologists say. Based on two ...

Before microscopes and satellites, the unknown world was a canvas for myth. When ancient explorers discovered fossils, ...

Agricultural specialists with U.S. Customs and Border Protection made a colossal find after Mexican authorities sent a truck driver attempting to enter that country back to the northern side of the ...

Special Agent Ed Newcomer of the Fish and Wildlife Service stands behind the skull of an Asian elephant, now housed in Torrance, Calif., that Jerry Snapp had listed for sale. The proposal netted Snapp ...